The Dirty Turkeys | From Basement Jams to MTV Underground

The Dirty Turkeys

Emerging from Colorado's Front Range and rooted in Castle Rock, The Dirty Turkeys are one of the fastest-rising bands in the modern independent rock scene. Formed in 2022 by brothers Brad "Gonzo" Hansen and Russ Hansen, alongside lifelong friends Sam Baker and Ty Tullar, the band has built a loyal following through their electrifying live performances, fearless creativity, and genre-defying sound they proudly call "Acid Cow Punk."

Blending psychedelic rock, surf music, punk attitude, classic rock influences, and outlaw country swagger, The Dirty Turkeys have created a sound that is uniquely their own. What began as basement jam sessions among friends quickly evolved into sold-out venues, festival appearances, and coast-to-coast touring. Their chemistry both on and off stage has become a defining characteristic of the band, delivering high-energy performances that have earned them a reputation as one of Colorado's most exciting live acts.

In 2025, The Dirty Turkeys released their debut album, Cowboy Caravan, showcasing the band's signature blend of psychedelic grooves, surf-inspired guitar work, and cowpunk energy. The release helped propel the group into the national spotlight and earned them recognition as Denver's Best Acid-Rock Band by Westword as well as inclusion on several "Must-See Bands" lists.

Their rapid rise has attracted attention well beyond the Colorado music scene. The band has been featured on MTV Underground, introducing their unique sound and high-octane performances to a broader audience while further cementing their status as one of the most promising young acts in independent music.

Drawing inspiration from artists such as The Velvet Underground, The Doors, Dick Dale, The Stooges, and classic Western influences, The Dirty Turkeys continue to push musical boundaries while staying true to their roots. Whether they're headlining clubs, performing at festivals, or embarking on another cross-country tour, The Dirty Turkeys bring an unforgettable energy that leaves audiences wanting more.

With a growing national fanbase, a critically acclaimed debut album, and a reputation for delivering some of the most exciting live shows on the road today, The Dirty Turkeys are proving that Acid Cow Punk is more than a genre—it's a movement.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:00

All right. Hey, music lovers. Welcome to Musical Miles Podcast. I'm your host, Byron Duffin, and I am here with them Dirty Turkey. The Dirty Turkeys. What a name. Where, well, first of all, let's introduce ourselves. Ty. I'm Ty. I'm the drummer. And that's Sam. Bradley Bradley. Vocals.

SPEAKER_04 0:19

I'm Russ.

SPEAKER_03 0:20

Russ. Nice to meet all of you. And I'm Byron. I think I said that up. I think you did. Yeah. But you guys are from uh Castle Rock, Colorado. Yes, we are. That's a cool place. That's a cool place. Yeah. There's some cool stuff in Colorado. We were out there for the um for a music festival in Grand Junction. What was it? What's it called? Great Peaches in Grand Junction. Country. Yeah, Country Junction. Yeah. But after we got done there, I this is back when I still had a real job. We went to Fort Collins for some meetings, and they had a we stayed at a hotel there called the Elizabeth, which is music. You know the place.

SPEAKER_07 1:06

It's right down the street from the sound.

SPEAKER_03 1:08

Music themed hotel. Coolest place ever. They have turntables. The guitars. They have turntables, records. Yeah. They blown out. I had a 1950 J45 in my room for three days for nothing. Just here, sign the paper.

SPEAKER_05 1:22

Oh, that's so good. How cool is that?

SPEAKER_03 1:24

I'm like, I'm never gonna get to play one of these. Actually, I did get to play a 1939 Martin the other night. Have you guys been to 12th Street or 12th Fret here?

SPEAKER_04 1:35

Oh, 12th Fret here, no. No.

SPEAKER_03 1:37

Oh no, no. You you gotta go check out the guitar shop here in town, 12th Fret. 39? A 39. Not only that, they have a 1955 Gibson Les Paul Gold Top. It's only 67,000, my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 1:53

But you gotta go see it.

SPEAKER_03 1:55

Because my buddy, Corey Grubb, he he works there. He's one of the uh salesmen and guitar techs, and and what a cool place. So this there's over there's like 600 guitars on display. Wow. They're hanging from the ceilings, and it's right down. It's right down the street, it's right down the street. It's on Capitol. It's on Capitol, and uh yeah. So anyway, you gotta go check it out. Tell me about them the dirty turkeys. I'm I've interviewed the them dirty roses, them uh them crooked vultures. Not those guys, but no, and then them there it sounds like I got a lot of guys to go interview, right? Loose roosters. Tell me about a lot of bird bands. Tell me about your band. How'd this thing come about and how'd you guys all end up together?

SPEAKER_05 2:45

Well, me and him are brothers.

SPEAKER_03 2:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:48

Ross and I are brothers. We've known Sam since he was a wee lad about preschool. Okay. And uh around uh good old COVID-19 times, these two guys started learning uh guitar. Okay. And as they started getting better throughout the next couple of years, uh, we ended up meeting Ty up in Boulder. Okay. And uh that's kind of when I got introduced in the band as well when they needed the singer. So we're a relatively new band, about two years old, but we uh kind of all fell fell into this uh uh around uh around two years ago.

SPEAKER_03 3:18

Okay, in Boulder, Colorado. Prior to that, so only you didn't you didn't play the guitar until you started until COVID happened, right? You got stuck at home?

SPEAKER_06 3:27

You were you were playing a little bit. I was playing uh I was playing for a while. When I was younger, I took lessons with my neighbor and then forgot about it. Once COVID came around, I just really put my head into that, and the swords kind of went away and just music from there. We were hanging out, and then I think Russ was just kind of like oh that's nice. Just play on that and makes notes. And uh Yeah, and then we bought like a $50 bass and we had a band. I love it.

SPEAKER_03 4:05

I love it, I love it. Well, yeah, we have a uh tw I don't know how you guys are all in your twenties, I'm assuming. Under 30. Under 30. Yeah, you're all about the same age as our youngest. And he was in college at uh Utah State University at Logan. He calls me up one day and he goes, Dad, I need a bass. I want to learn to play the bass. I said, Nobody wants to learn to play the bass, right? That's not the instrument you start with a guitar or the keys or something, but you don't want to start with a bass. And he did, and he loved it, and now he hijacked one of my guitars that he and he and we bought him a keyboard and stuff. But he's not but he's not in a band, he he did, but he loves music. All our kids all love music, but none of us have any natural musical talent. Shandah's mom was a songwriter and she could play by ear, and and but but she didn't get that. And and there's no music in my background for generations that I know of that I can my grandpa could play the harmonica a little bit, you know. But me either.

SPEAKER_04 5:06

Our family, our grandma Francina, she played the piano, but other than that, that's it.

SPEAKER_03 5:11

It's just it's just something you guys decided you and and were you were you avid music listeners? I mean, were you uh you all listened to music fanatics? What what kind of what kind of music and what really influenced your music?

SPEAKER_04 5:24

Well, I would cred I would credit a lot of my music taste to Brad's because I mean we so we kind of grew up on um like pop hits when we were younger, and then kind of when I we started getting our own taste in music, we would we were listening to rap like Wu Tang Clan, uh Notorious B.I.G. all that stuff, Tribe Tribe Called Quest, and then I remember Brad showed me MacDamarco one day, who was who was like an indie artist at the time. Okay. And um that completely just sent me down the road of listening to all this new kinds of music that wasn't rap, and then that led me to discovering the doors and the beatles and the Rolling Stones.

SPEAKER_03 6:03

So you went way back. Yeah. Okay. Which is which is cool because um uh you know, most pe artists get their especially if they're if their parents weren't musical, but still most of them we all listen to what our parents listen to, right? They your parents influenced your taste in music early on, and then you have a rebellious stage, like you know, I I went from listening to Ray Price and Sonny James and Eddie Arnold to Alice Cooper, which really pissed my dad off, right? You know, that was my antisocial behavior was was going to you know Alice Cooper, then you know, I mean CCR and the Eagles and you know, some of that stuff, you know. I grew up in the 70s and so but I you know the Beatles were always part of it too.

SPEAKER_05 6:51

But I think the Beatles have influenced everybody in some form or fashion in the music industry, no matter what, whether you play everyone has like a Beatles stage where they're just like you find the Beatles and you guys have their catalog, you're like, what the hell is this?

SPEAKER_03 7:06

Well, I don't think anyone had as much impact on the music world as they did impactful in such a short period of time, right? From the from the mid-60s to when they kind of got started till they were done in 72. Done.

SPEAKER_07 7:20

Wasn't in the years if the Beatles never existed. Like maybe another one would have come along and build that space, but like so many bands would not exist if the Beatles never existed.

SPEAKER_03 7:31

No, no, the world would be a different place. Well, yeah, uh, I mean, all all that the impact that they had on the on the the in the UK and and around the world, period. I mean, you know, bands like the Bee Gees, you know, were were direct result of of those guys. So I mean that that just it just goes on and on. Yeah, you know, and and we have a very eclectic taste in music. But so what what would you say your spread is from do you go beyond the Beatles? Anyone, I mean Roy Orbison, do you go any of that stuff?

SPEAKER_06 8:05

Yeah, absolutely. My my biggest influence since I was a kid was rap music. I was a big fan of Biggie Smalls. Okay, and uh I kind of gained my interest in bass from listening to hip hop. I wasn't picking on bass players, by the way. Yeah, you don't really get enough of it. Um but yeah, so like the way Biggie rapped is kind of where I was like, what is that instrument that's like kind of a drum, but also a guitar.

SPEAKER_03 8:43

It has that it sets the bass tone for for everything.

SPEAKER_06 8:47

And is making a joke at the same time being like pretty serious. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:52

I like the way you put that. It is it is kind of a making a big joke, but it's pretty serious.

SPEAKER_07 8:56

Yeah, there's this there's this drummer that I watched like an interview of that he said his biggest influence as a drummer was Bob Dylan. And what not drumming, not Bob Dylan's drum, like the drums in his tracks, but Bob Dylan's phonetics and like the you know like the what an influence of his.

SPEAKER_03 9:16

Yeah, what well he's he's very unique and very interesting. And I would I would dare say if Bob Dylan came on the scene today, would he make it? We were having this conversation. We had this exact opportunity. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Seriously. Well, you I mean, you think about it. There's some other artists out there that that that if they'd have showed up today, would they have been as big? Even the Beatles. But the Beatles didn't have anything to compete with them. Yeah. You know what I mean? They they owned the world. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 9:52

Uh it's an interesting hypothetical.

SPEAKER_04 9:54

Well, think about guys like Jesse Wells. You know Jesse Wells? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:58

He was just here in Boise last week. Yeah. Wow. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:02

Yeah. He's he's kind of gone with that that same vibe of a word of mouth singing kind of spoken word. Spoken word. But you wonder if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, would people be that interested in him?

SPEAKER_03 10:16

He's he's very interesting too because he he picks some really unique topics, right? I mean, he's he kind of is out there on the edge and but but he also sings about Walmart. Yeah, it's so it's so funny.

SPEAKER_07 10:29

I'll see like I'll see something on Instagram on like the news or something, and then like three or four hours later, the Jesse Wells will have like a full written song about it.

SPEAKER_03 10:36

Isn't that crazy? Are you guys writing, speaking of writing music, are you writing your own stuff now? Or are you talking about it? We are, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 10:42

We put out our we put out our debut album almost almost a year ago. It's a year ago, like next week, or like two weeks from now. So our debut album is almost a year old. Okay. And that was called Cowboy Caravan. And then our second sophomore album is due in October of this year. Cool. And so we just finished recording that two weeks ago. And uh So are you starting to release singles off of that? Yeah, so we've got four singles out so far. Oh, cool. Uh we just released a new like EP with all the all the singles from the new album on last Friday. Okay. So that was called You and Your Band. We put out a new song called You and Your Band. And uh so there's four songs on that. I think there's gonna end up being Twelve? Yeah, 12, 13 songs on the album.

SPEAKER_03 11:26

And uh now are you uh are you gonna we live in a different world today, and you guys grew up in the world we're in. So um are you gonna produce, are you gonna press album? Uh vinyl? You do the vinyl. Absolutely. You did vinyl for the last one, you didn't. We'll have to send you one. Oh, that'd be dude. Send me one, autograph it. You guys all sign up for me, I'll put it hanging in my office. Yeah, I love that. I have a couple of other uh albums. You know, we grew up on vinyl.

unknown 11:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:59

I mean, I lived it all, right? Vinyl, cassette, eight-tracks. CD. Don't forget. A track. CD. Yeah, even CD, we now Shanda just bought a used car, just a runaround car, and it has a C D player in it. We actually have the somewhere to play CDs. But I was at a songwriter festival in Montana, and this songwriter uh Stephanie Quayle said, Byron, did you get one of my CDs? And I said, Stephanie, I have no way to play it. And she goes, Here, take two. Like what am I gonna do? We have CDs.

SPEAKER_04 12:27

We have CDs too. You do CDs.

SPEAKER_05 12:29

People buy CDs a lot. But when people are coming back to that physical form is really important. Well, and it makes the it makes the the music have more value to people like that.

SPEAKER_03 12:42

Well, without a question, um, you know, I grew up in the era of vinyl and even uh uh 78. Yeah, yeah, cassettes. Cassettes. Yeah, yeah, we have all that. But but the crazy thing is, is that if you if someone released a single Toby Keith or Garth Brooks or whoever, you had to buy the whole damn album. You didn't get to buy, but you know, streaming streaming's done some really, really cool things for the music industry, but it's also hurt it horribly.

SPEAKER_07 13:16

They used to press what, like those eight-inch vinyls for singles. Yeah, they they were called uh they were called uh a 45.

SPEAKER_03 13:22

There was a 45 and there was a 78.

SPEAKER_07 13:25

Is that a different speed of rotation, right?

SPEAKER_01 13:27

Yes, was on your player you had the little or some of them also had because the 45 had a bigger hole.

SPEAKER_03 13:40

It had a bigger hole in it, so you had to put a a little insert in there so it would sit on the pin to play anyway. I don't know the but you're right, it is speed. But then there were 78s also. So there's but but the point being to get the music you wanted, the music I wanted, Three Dog Knight released a new single, I fell in love with it. I had to buy the whole album.

SPEAKER_07 14:01

Yeah, well, you think about you think about back in the day, if you really loved a band and you wanted to hear their music, you either had to buy their vinyl, go see them live, or hear them on the radio. Right. And any one of those three ways bands making money. That's what like bands back in the day.

SPEAKER_03 14:19

Yeah, yeah, we yeah, we recorded the you know, mixtapes. But but the crazy thing is that that's how they all got paid. Not only the spins on the radio, spins on the radio paid big time, the mechanicals, printing vinyl records, CDs, tapes, that's where the money was made. You think back on some of these bands that sold millions and millions of copies in the in the 50s and 60s, you're like, how the hell did they sell 30 million copies of that song?

SPEAKER_07 14:51

Like, I was even thinking about like how did how'd like Led Zeppelin goes to play Madison Square Garden? How the hell do they like like nowadays you send an email or if we want to play a venue or something?

SPEAKER_03 15:01

It's like how did they even like get that in the works and how did like people And how did they find out about it and how did they make newspapers and radio stations, right? So so they had huge marketing uh budgets and big big things. Well, just you think about Woodstock, an event like Woodstock.

SPEAKER_05 15:19

Yeah, you know like uh viral reels going off.

SPEAKER_03 15:23

No, and word of mouth. Word of mouth, and and we had friends, I didn't obviously go, but uh I had friends who lived in New York that went. No, they were there, and they literally parked cars in the middle of the streets. They people ran out of gas and they just walked. They walked into Woodstock. So But the music industry's changed a lot, but it sounds like you guys got your stuff together, and I'm impressed because number one, you you put out your your freshman album within the first year of becoming a band, and two, you've got your second one coming out within the third year, right? By the end of the third year, and and you're pressing violent, which is way cooler. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 16:04

One thing that the turkeys don't lack is songs. We have enough songs to make a third album right now if we wanted to. It's more about time than.

SPEAKER_07 16:11

We have a full third album.

SPEAKER_05 16:13

Yeah, we're constantly writing and selling with songs and riffs and and all that. So we we have an abundance of music plethora.

SPEAKER_03 16:23

Are you are you guys uh all touring hundred percent that you're this is you're doing music hundred percent full time?

SPEAKER_00 16:31

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_03 16:32

How many gigs a year are you are you trying to get on under your belt? And last year I think we did over a hundred years.

SPEAKER_05 16:38

Yeah, this year we did like 130. Luckily, the first two two tours we did, uh Ty booked all of them for this. So it was a lot of dive bar kind of feeling. Sure. Um and we were playing three hour sets like three to four times a week. Oh, yeah. All over California, Idaho, Utah, like all over the West. And this past year, we get we actually are with like a booking agency now, which is really nice because it's opened the doors for us to to do something like Tree Four. Like we emailed Tree Fort like right when we started and didn't get an email back. You know, like sure. Once you start it's like any business, once you start, you know, getting people in the industry to vouch for you, it's easy to get out of here.

SPEAKER_03 17:17

Well, it's no different than a podcast, guys. I mean, we we've done we've so you guys are somewhere in the neighborhood. We're less than two years since we started this. You're somewhere in the neighborhood of 240 some episodes interviews. Wow. In 20 months. In 20 months. Wow. And we've we have aired 190 plus episodes.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

Wow.

unknown 17:40

All in person.

SPEAKER_03 17:41

All in person. Everyone in person. Not one single Zoom call. That's not true. Not one single, and we've been everywhere from Nashville, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming. Is that a hard like criteria you guys have? Yeah, in person. And I mean, I've had people reach out and go, hey, you know what? We would like to to be on your podcast. I had a guy from Europe the other day send me an email. I didn't know he was in Europe when we started communicating. He goes, I'd love to be on your podcast. I'm like, great, when when can you do it? And he goes, Well, and I he goes, well, whenever, and you know, we just have set up a call, and I go, I'm sorry. Nice. Just I I I I listen, if I did, if I didn't do that, I mean we're gonna do we'll do probably 10 or 12 interviews here during this week. But so so I have like you've got songs, I got content. So unfortunately, guys, I hate to tell you this won't air for a couple months, right? But when it does, what what it gives you something to share and it gives you. And it gives us it gives us a new a new uh genre and and new music to listen to, right? Yeah, exactly. What do you guys consider your music genre-wise?

SPEAKER_05 18:53

Called Acid Cowpunk. Acid Cowpunk.

SPEAKER_03 18:55

Well, you said you you the title of your of your album was Cowboy Caravan. Cowboy Caravan. And the next album is Soul Sugar. Yeah. You gotta quit doing that to me.

SPEAKER_04 19:04

I want to know where you get your outfits.

SPEAKER_03 19:06

Oh, yeah. She is we call we call her gr Glamma.

SPEAKER_07 19:11

She's actually styling. She's here. The girl who styled us for that photo shoot. She did that photo shoot, right? Yeah, it's cow. Yeah. The girl who styled us for that photo shoot is here at Tree Four. Oh, really?

SPEAKER_05 19:22

But usually we get a lot of our clothes. Uh a lot of them are vintage. Vintage. And a lot of them are from the women's section. Yeah. Totally. Because there's vintage, just more just cooler stuff in the women's section. Billy Bob Thornton wears women's jeans. Yeah, did you know that?

SPEAKER_03 19:35

No way. Size six, size six, women's Levite jeans. Billy Bob Thornton. And the shoes he was wearing were like 20 years old. He was we saw him play in uh Texas. But but we we just you know, we felt it was important to keep the integrity of the podcast and and the ability to have a conversation. Because there's no replacing this. No. Right? Uh then one, you know, one-on-one. Yeah. So do me a favor. Well, first of all, I gotta finish asking that question. Cowboy what? Was the title you just Cowboy Caravan. Where does that come from?

SPEAKER_04 20:08

So the the Cowboy Cowboy Caravan was uh it was a it was a poem originally that I had written. Okay. And the poem was all over the place. It was it was like a circus of madness, and we kind of consolidated that into a song, and then came together as a band and wrote a song using using those lyrics as inspiration for the song. And and then yeah, that that inspired the name of the album. We're like this really encapsulates the full album.

SPEAKER_03 20:48

Okay, so so when you call your music cowpunk acid. Acid cowpunk. Acid cunk cowpunk. So there's a there's a uh a recurring theme here of a uh cowboy western kind of deal. Is there any of that in your backgrounds?

SPEAKER_05 21:03

Yeah, I mean, I think growing up in Colorado, like we're from the Castle Rock area. We grew up uh camping in the woods, baking forts. Like we we live close to Sedalia, which is you know, we go down to spots like Buds Bar and like hang out with all the cowboys and ranchers around there. Like from our houses, you can drive to like there, Buds Bar. Yeah, Buds Bar Sedalia Proud. You can drive to like we didn't none of us grew up on a ranch. Okay, but you can our friends had ranches, you can dri you can drive into the the woods and and get pretty lost, pretty, yeah, pretty close. So I think that that that cow aspect is definitely it's it's in our blood. It says Colorado Roots. Okay. And I like that.

SPEAKER_03 21:45

Well, yeah, and why I ask, that's my background. I I'm an old rodeo cowboy. Potato. I grew up on a potato farm, but I'm a I'm a cowboy. I mean, I I I tell everybody I'm an Idaho farm boy, I always wanted to be a cowboy. So at fifteen I picked up a guitar. And a rope at the same time. And I went, man, chicks dig cowboys. I'm going to go with the rope, which was stupid because chicks really dig guys that can play guitar. But I still found a pretty cool chick. But all right, grab that guitar and play me a little acid cow. What are you? Cowpunk. Acid cow punk. Acid cowpunk.

SPEAKER_05 22:21

So you got the acid, you got the psychedelia, you got the doors, the rolling stones, you got the cow, you got the Roy Oberson, you got the Roger Miller, all that. Then you got the punk, you got the dead Kennedys, and you got that kind of feel. You come to shows, you've seen Moshkas, you've seen stage diving, it's all that. It's all blended into one beautiful thing called the Dirty Turkeys. I love it. Cool. I love that explanation.

SPEAKER_03 22:40

Good job. Thank you. All right, let's hear something.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

Mountain cowboy. Mine, mine, mine, mine till the end of time. Will we bribe two diamond stones? Will you be mine? Taking your time. Mine, mine, mine, mine, till the end of time. Ow.

SPEAKER_07 23:40

I love it.

SPEAKER_03 23:41

We're usually all shirtless and sweaty when we go. Okay. Well, that conjured up some stuff I didn't want to have to think about. Guys, this has been fun. Thank you for reaching out.

SPEAKER_07 23:52

Of course. Thanks for having us.

SPEAKER_03 23:53

Yeah, this is this is cool. I I uh I sure wish I could stay awake till midnight. Oh, come on. You got it, man. If I get a chance, I'm gonna go have a nap. We'll buy you a coffee. So what where where are we gonna find your music?

SPEAKER_04 24:08

Well, you can find it phys physically at our shows. Yes. We don't we don't have we're sold out of vinyls right now, but we have CDs. Okay. And then if you're on your phone, you can find it anywhere. Spotify, bandcam, streaming, iTunes, YouTube.

SPEAKER_03 24:26

YouTube. Cool. Cool. Us too. So we're on YouTube, so this will be on YouTube. This will be on all streaming platforms. We're on Spotify, Apple, iTunes, all of it. So um Buzz Sprout. Oh yeah. Yeah, okay, good question. I I forget. I get all wound up. You guys play me these wild songs. Um if you could work with anyone that's no longer living.

SPEAKER_04 24:55

That's no longer living. No longer living.

SPEAKER_03 24:58

Dead. 100% dead. Who would it be? Who would you like to have had the chance to have met and worked with? Prince. Prince. Great answer. David Bowie. David Bowie's another great answer. There's got to be a legendary drummer in there. I can think of one. Jimmy Buffett. John Bonham. What another great one.

SPEAKER_06 25:24

George Clinton. George Clinton. He's alive. He's alive.

SPEAKER_03 25:27

Okay, I'm gonna ask that question next. So you can so that's your life. So you gotta think about the dead one.

SPEAKER_06 25:40

Sly around? Sly in the family stone guy? I don't know. I would love to uh be around. Sli's gone video. Sly's gone. I don't even want to I wouldn't want to collaborate with Jimi Hendrix. I would like to just listen to him playing.

SPEAKER_03 25:54

Just listen to him playing. How cool would that be? Yeah. Listen, you know, yeah, left left-handed guy who who played a right-handed guitar. Did he string it left-handed?

SPEAKER_06 26:07

No.

SPEAKER_03 26:08

He played a right-handed guitar upside down and left-handed guitar.

SPEAKER_06 26:10

Oh no, yeah, he did it right now.

SPEAKER_03 26:13

He strung it the way it's supposed to be. I had a guy, I did not kidding you, a week ago, we did a our second songwriter round in Idaho Falls Night that played hand guitar upside down, strung. I could turn it over and play it. What? Strung just like that. He could pick that guitar up and play it left-handed. That is the thing.

SPEAKER_06 26:34

Yeah, you could flip it, but it was. Was Jimmy did Jimmy do that or was his strung uh well from what I know, he would string it the same way that all guitarists do, but Russ does say that I have a hankering. A hankring. And also I've heard that he could just flip it and play the same way. Really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:57

Wow. I'm in awe of anybody who can really truly play the guitar. Because I just I think that's a great instrument. I think it's there's so many cool different uh guitars. What do you play, Norm, on stage? What's your guitar?

SPEAKER_04 27:12

Uh I have a Mexican-made telecaster.

SPEAKER_03 27:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 27:16

First uh first guitar I ever bought. Still play it. Cool. She's my baby.

SPEAKER_07 27:21

Baby The guitar is a very interesting instrument because it's like the top, or I guess the bottom four strings are all in fifths, and then all of a sudden it jumps to the B string, which is like I think it's like a sort of thing.

SPEAKER_03 27:37

So you're talking music theory shit, and it's way over my head. I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 27:40

It's just like such an interesting tuning for instance.

SPEAKER_03 27:42

Well, and did you I didn't know I just learned this the other day. You guys probably know this. The bottom four strings on a on a guitar are the same as a ukulele with a capo. If you put a capel on the fifth fret of a guitar, the bottom four strings are the same as a ukulele. Did you know this? No. Cool. Actually, I was matata. How cool is that? No worries.

SPEAKER_00 28:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:05

And I still can't play the ukulele either. But anyway. Um uh okay, so we we did the dead alive. Who would you love to work with today?

SPEAKER_04 28:24

Rattlesnake milk guitars.

SPEAKER_05 28:26

Wow!

SPEAKER_04 28:28

Bob it up, bob it up, bob it up, don't know the name.

SPEAKER_03 28:31

Not a clue.

SPEAKER_07 28:32

Not at everyone?

SPEAKER_03 28:33

Uh rattlesnake milk?

SPEAKER_07 28:35

Yeah. That would be an insane collaboration. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 28:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 28:40

I actually uh nope, not changing it. George Glenn. George George. George Glynn. Okay. Okay. I'd have to go with man.

SPEAKER_05 28:54

Skip me real quick. I need to think. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 28:58

I have so many answers and I can't pick one. I can't decide on one.

SPEAKER_04 29:01

Choose a realistic one.

SPEAKER_02 29:03

Like these guys know you were a realistic one. You're gonna say something just out of left.

SPEAKER_07 29:15

Um I would probably say Dave Grohl.

SPEAKER_03 29:18

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_07 29:19

I like that.

SPEAKER_03 29:20

Good answer. Yeah, that's a great answer. Yeah. Great musician.

SPEAKER_05 29:23

Yeah. Okay. Back to you. Call me old-fashioned, call me cliche. I'm going, Mr. P. McCartney. I'm going to go. Mr. P. Easy answer. It's easy answer. Easy answer. I would like to say that too. I would like it to. I would like to.

SPEAKER_03 29:41

I don't know. I mean, one of the greatest movies. What about Coulter Wall? I would love to work with Coulter Wall. Hey, yeah. You know what I mean? Coulter Wall would be great, actually. We just saw Coulter in Vegas during the NFR NFR. And then uh we were supposed to see him in Gillette. You know, he's cancelled all his shows.

SPEAKER_05 29:56

Oh, really? He did?

SPEAKER_03 29:57

You didn't know that? No, because what you can't get in? Emotionally he's having some Yeah, he's taking a break. So he's canceled everything coming up. And he was headlining at Gillette at the Dusty Vaquero days. Oh my gosh. Wow. So that sucks.

SPEAKER_04 30:11

It's a pretty big stage.

SPEAKER_07 30:12

I can't imagine the amount of pressure that's on a band that's that size.

SPEAKER_03 30:17

Yeah. Very, very interesting artist, too. You know, I mean, very unique voice. Yeah. Yeah. His lyrics are very powerful. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 30:25

We saw him at um. Yeah, we saw him at Mission Bar in Denver like two years ago. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 30:32

Cool. Well, guys, this has been fun. Thank you. Where where are we headed from uh Treefort?

SPEAKER_07 30:39

We've been on tour for about a back home.

SPEAKER_06 30:41

Back home.

SPEAKER_07 30:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 30:47

We were in uh Austin, Texas for South by Southwest.

SPEAKER_03 30:50

Oh, did you go to Austin? Yeah. See, we we applied for uh media passes for South by Southwest. Never heard back from them.

SPEAKER_05 30:58

Oh really?

SPEAKER_03 30:59

But we're like a young band, right? With a young podcast. We um we were we we applied for media passes for Miles Zero Fest in Key West, Florida in January, and her never heard a word back until the Friday before it started on Tuesday, and we were already rescheduled to do something else. Yeah. And they go, Oh, this is where you pick up your media passes. You're shitting me. So we were in our flight, we were headed to Nashville, our flight got canceled because of the ice storms. We were trying to figure out how to get to Miami and drive down. No, because route hotel rooms were 500 bucks a night instead of 250. That's crazy. Anyway, uh we're going we're going to Key West the end of April for the BMI Songwriter Fest. Oh, that's nice. It's gone on for 30 years. And have you guys ever been to Key West? No. Beautiful. Oh, what a great place. Music is amazing.

SPEAKER_06 31:52

There's once in your life, drive to Key West.

SPEAKER_03 31:55

Yeah, drive from Miami down the seven mile bridge. Frozen margaritas. Oh, dude, there's a there's there Duvall Street has I think 40 bars on Duval Street. 40? And it has the world's smallest bar, which is literally a doorway with a bar chill in it. It's how small. It's like a telephone. It's like a door. It's like a door, and you stand at the doorway and order your drinks. It's the width of a door. You drink outside. Yeah. I mean, you you can walk them down the streets. There's no uh Oh, it's one of the Hemingway. Hemingway. See, that's with the Hemingway house. See, and you know where Hemingway's buried. Yeah, it's not. We've been there. No, it's in uh it's in Valley. Oh, yeah. Catch them on the way to the house. On the way to catch them. Is it Grubbers?

SPEAKER_06 32:39

No, it's do you guys know Grumpies? Do you know Grubbs? You know Grubbs?

SPEAKER_03 32:45

No, where's Grubbs?

SPEAKER_06 32:46

Uh outside Salt Lake.

SPEAKER_04 32:47

It's in uh Rock Springs, Rock Springs, Wyoming.

SPEAKER_03 32:50

Do you guys know the roughed up duck in Yes? In uh Hess. Uh uh what's his name? Hess. Uh that we interviewed. They do music there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's the guy. The guy who runs the bar is a great musician. Sean, Sean Hess. I've communicated with Sean via email.

SPEAKER_07 33:09

He's a cool dude. Where? And they've got some great music. He didn't want us. He didn't watch it. He didn't want us. Where? This was back in the day, though. Yeah. This was like two years ago. When we were working on our first tour.

SPEAKER_04 33:19

Tell Sean.

SPEAKER_07 33:20

43.

SPEAKER_00 33:21

300 bars on Key West.

SPEAKER_04 33:23

300 bars.

SPEAKER_05 33:25

That is only three and a half miles wide. Six-month tour Justin Key West, which is totally circuits.

SPEAKER_03 33:35

And I'm telling you guys, it's a cool town. It's got a cool vibe. Listen, I'm going to let you go. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you for having a blast. You guys are cool. Russ, you want to play an outro? Play an outro. Place an outro. Make it up. Place out, man. Make it up on the side.

SPEAKER_05 34:01

Thank you for having us.

SPEAKER_03 34:02

Hey. Hey. Thank you guys. Hey, I'm Byron, Musical Mild Podcast with the Dirty Turkeys. We will see you somewhere down the road. Adios for now.

SPEAKER_05 34:12

Adios for now.

SPEAKER_03 34:13

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