Waxing with Dr. Klaw

On this delicious episode we have a great chat about the good ol days with a long time friend of ours, Ryan Mooers. There are balloons, weird men and so many salads! 

Transcript

SPEAKER_05 0:19

Welcome back, Mother Fathers, to another nostalgic episode of Beaton Stories. Hello. With Schnazzle and Jerry. I'm Schnazzle. Hello.

SPEAKER_01 0:28

I'm Jerry, Jerry Lagar from Canada.

SPEAKER_05 0:31

A Canadian flautist for the ages. I can really blow.

SPEAKER_01 0:37

Um, so Josh, how you doing, brother? You good? Uh, pretty good. Yeah, just chilling. Just got back from the gym. You know.

SPEAKER_05 0:43

I'm sorry I had to miss that today. I had to go slang my book on Callo.

SPEAKER_01 0:46

Uh, it's cool. What was going down on Callo?

SPEAKER_05 0:49

It's like uh Spring Fling or some shit, but like right in that little enclave there, uh, which I met the wonderful owner of that design store, Gilbert. Gilbert. The Illustrator. Oh, Danielle? Danielle Rimbert. Rimbert, that's right. Rimbert Gallery. She's awesome. And uh, so we had a booth. I was selling my book, Wedding Scam. The quintessential Bremerton romance novella, punk rock, K-F. Um, and uh, it was cool, dude. They had like this like brass, like ska band. It was a beautiful day in Bremerton. Ska? Yeah, they were playing like an all-horn instrumental, like a bunch of cool covers, but like with like a tuba and shit.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

Speaking of your book, did anybody pick it up?

SPEAKER_05 1:37

Yep, yeah, they did. Oh, and I also saw Mike Herrera down there said what's up to him and gave him a zine.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_05 1:42

Yeah. So it was a very Bremerton day for me, man. It was cool, cool vibes.

SPEAKER_01 1:48

I hope someone I hope someone got my ska joke there. Pick it up, pick it up. Yeah, that was it.

SPEAKER_05 1:54

Um, but uh yeah, man, I it was uh it was a wonderful day, and uh I'm glad to be back in the studio with you again, my friend.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

Oh yeah. Um what are we uh waxing on today? Well yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:07

We've got a very special guest with us today, and I think we should kind of bring him in a little bit earlier to start talking about our music era in Bremerton. Uh, and just because I feel like it's gonna be a great long combo with our boy today, Ryan Moores, also known as Dr. Claw. Or Khlooy.

SPEAKER_00 2:27

Oh Jeff Kaluli. What's up?

SPEAKER_05 2:28

Jeff Kaloole. Welcome to B-Town Stories, brother.

SPEAKER_00 2:31

Thanks, man. I couldn't be happier to be here. This is my favorite podcast.

SPEAKER_05 2:34

Oh, nice, amazing. So um, so yeah, we just thought it would be great to to wax on the early music scene and your kind of adventures and your intro into the music scene in Kidsap County.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_05 2:46

But first of all, like you're from Orange County originally, right?

SPEAKER_00 2:49

Yeah, I was born down here. Uh moved up to Washington when I was 12, um, early in uh Richtop seventh grade.

SPEAKER_05 2:56

Got it. And then I hooked, and then we met, I got kicked out of Fairview um a couple times. And so I went to ninth grade at Richtop where we started kicking it.

SPEAKER_00 3:06

Right, yeah. I think that's what that's when I met you, I think was uh ninth grade Cal Moside's algebra class. You're sitting right behind me.

SPEAKER_05 3:14

Yeah, that was uh Mr. Moside was something else, yeah. And Josh, you just went to Fairview the whole time, right?

SPEAKER_01 3:21

Yeah, I mean, the days I showed up or wasn't running through the woods scared of gang members.

SPEAKER_05 3:31

Um, but dude, so well, first of all, the first time I ever heard punk rock played live was I believe a band that you were playing in, Claw. Was it was like this Misfits cover band that you played outside of Ridgetop, right?

SPEAKER_00 3:45

Yeah, that was I think me, I want to say Nick Pursley, Yuri, and Giles. If I'm remembering right. It was I think Nick sang Giles played bass and Yuri was on drums. That was amazing. I don't even remember how we got that started. We just it was like a one-off for that show, like the last day of school.

SPEAKER_05 4:07

Yeah, that was sick. So that was after the talent show, right?

SPEAKER_00 4:11

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Talent show, I think, was early. Yeah, the talent show with Rampant Fury. I want to say it was like early ninth grade. It was like two weeks before Nevermind came out. Like the last, like the death throes of heavy metal in popular music.

SPEAKER_01 4:28

I I always wanted to ask you, uh, but I never did. Um uh were you a death metal dude before you moved up here? Or did you become a rocker here?

SPEAKER_00 4:41

Uh I was I mean, I was into about as heavy of music as I had found at that time. Like, I think before I moved up here, my favorite album was like Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets.

SPEAKER_05 4:51

Oh, okay. So, Metallica is like quintessential metal at the time.

SPEAKER_00 4:55

Yeah, like the like the thrash, thrash era Metallica. Oh, I hadn't really heard any death metal until a little bit later, but yeah, I was I was searching.

SPEAKER_05 5:04

Yeah. So like but the but the fucking talent show really so the first punk rock show I ever saw was you guys playing the misfits, but the first like live rock show that really like changed the game was that talent show that you played with Gabe. Was it with Endless Descent?

SPEAKER_00 5:21

It was Rampant Fury, Giles was seen.

SPEAKER_05 5:24

Got it.

SPEAKER_00 5:25

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 5:26

But you guys played like Metallica.

SPEAKER_00 5:29

Yeah, yeah. And again, that started off as just like a one-off thing. I think I was together with Tom, or I don't remember if I was talking to Gabe or to Tom, but we're like, hey, we should get together and like do something for this talent show. And that was basically how the band formed was you know, we learned under Sandman together and just kept playing.

SPEAKER_05 5:46

So that was amazing. Dude, like it blocked so fucking hard, dude. Like the whole school lost their mind.

SPEAKER_00 5:53

Dude, I can't believe they let us do that. They turned off all the lights in the gym, like only had a strobe light. I've heard about this 400 kids for many people, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 6:04

Dude, but like, so talk about like the experience, what it was like before and after that show, because I feel like it was like a seismic shift that happened, at least to me. Like, I think I I heard you guys play at Bridgetop and then also somehow went to Fairview.

SPEAKER_00 6:20

Yeah, I don't remember if we brought like a few people with us to go see that just to like have our backs, but um yeah, no, that was a huge deal. That was the first time I ever really played in front of anybody. First time we played with a band, like jamming with Tom was the first time I'd ever played at the drummer. Wow. And I was like, holy shit, this is fucking awesome.

SPEAKER_02 6:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:40

And so then, you know, first thing we get up in front of like 400 people and they go nuts, and that was like the peak of my musical career. All downhill after there. No, I take it back. The peak was after that going back to class, we had to tear down the you know the setup, and uh walked back into class like 15 minutes late, and I think it was Miss Murphy's English class, and everybody stopped what they were doing and like turned and stood up and applauded like when I walked in the door. It was like a total John Hughes moment. That's amazing, and then it was all downhill from there. Yeah. But no, that was like so. Yeah, like I said, I think that was like two weeks before Nevermind came out if I have the timing right. And then as soon as everyone discovered grunge, it was like over.

unknown 7:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 7:30

But damn, I mean, so that's a pretty killer fucking beatdown story, right?

SPEAKER_00 7:34

Yeah, I mean, that was enough to make me want to be in bands for the rest of my young life.

SPEAKER_05 7:38

Yeah, nice. Right on, man. Did you guys get in a band?

SPEAKER_01 7:43

You and Josh? We jammed uh was that me and you and Gabe.

SPEAKER_00 7:51

I want to say yes at the crib.

SPEAKER_01 7:53

Food and the crumbs.

SPEAKER_00 7:55

Food and the crumbs. I can't remember. Like, I know I was there. I don't remember if I was actually playing with you guys. I think I'm in a puke. Was that you guys?

SPEAKER_01 8:05

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think you maybe it was me, Johnny, and Gabe, and then you were just like hanging out.

SPEAKER_00 8:11

I'm sure I was, yeah, I know I was there.

SPEAKER_01 8:14

So not not officially, no.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

How did you and Gabe meet? Oh, dude. So I had a friend in eighth grade, Justin Francis.

SPEAKER_05 8:23

I know Justin Francis, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:24

Yeah, his dad lived around the corner from Gabe's house on Gillette.

SPEAKER_05 8:27

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

And so I think Justin and I like snuck out one night to go smoke cigarettes or buy beer or something. Like we're in eighth, I think we're in eighth grade. And so we're just walking down Gillette, and I hear these two guys come out of the house, and they're like, you know, being loud, drunk dudes. It was fucking Gabe and Caleb Dewar. And the first time I ever met Gabe, he was singing uh Herpes 2 by the mentors. Amazing. Yeah. So then we I don't know. I don't remember how we like stopped and started talking, but I think I was wearing my Metallica shirt. He probably had a creator shirt or something like that. And we just like realized we had guitar lessons at the same shop, and then we made plans to jam, and that was you know, that was the end of that. Right.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

Who were you taking oh sorry, who were you taking lessons from?

SPEAKER_00 9:14

I was taking lessons from Mike Carnes, and then Gabe was getting lessons from the other guy that taught there. I can't remember his name.

SPEAKER_01 9:20

Was that at uh it was at Kids At Music? Oh, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:23

Yeah, so it turns out Mike Peacock and I both took lessons from Mike Carnes, and I think Joe Cadornes did too. Oh so yeah, all the all the disembodied guys.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

And then like all the all the Silverdale guys went to uh Tim Birch. Remember that guy? Where was that? He was in DJ's musicale.

SPEAKER_00 9:43

Yeah, the other store. Yeah, yeah. I think that was where I sold my Flying V. Huh. Which was fucking stupid.

SPEAKER_01 9:50

I worked I worked there for a minute and I got fired though, because I never sold anything. I just sat around trying to figure out Green Day songs on the right on, man.

SPEAKER_05 10:02

Awesome. Dude, so like uh so do you have any quintessential B Town stories you'd like to share with the audience, Cloud? Anything that's on your mind and nostalgic about Bremerton, maybe the music scene or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 10:13

Um, I don't know that this is quite a B Town story per se, but it's a little anecdote that I think has been missed a couple times talking about hanging out at the crib since we're talking about food in the crumbs. Oh, I love the crib. Cribs it's what do you remember cribs its every time we sit in Gabe's room?

SPEAKER_05 10:31

There'd be like 10 of us in there with the door closed and smoking cigarettes and we need every time you came out of Gabe Zassy'd up like severe acne chilling in Gabe's room.

SPEAKER_00 10:43

Totally. Everyone called him Cribs It's. Oh yeah, I got a couple new Cribs It's yesterday.

SPEAKER_05 10:49

Dude, Gabe was such a cool dude.

SPEAKER_00 10:50

Here's a cool account. Gabe still is a cool dude.

SPEAKER_05 10:53

Yeah, so like uh he's not dead. I know, but like I haven't seen him for a long time. Yeah, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:58

But uh last time I saw Gabe was over by Sean Badrosian's house. We got together and had a couple drinks maybe 10 years ago.

SPEAKER_05 11:08

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 11:09

I think I was with you actually. That's right, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 11:13

So like this, I met this chick who uh we won't even name her, but it was high school, and I was like talking to her on the phone, and um I like I just wanted to try to make out with her or something, you know? And so I was like, Can you sneak out of your house? And she's like, sure. And uh I didn't have a car, so I called Gabe. It was like probably like a Monday at like 11:30. Like, dude, here's what I need you to do. Pick me up, get this chick up, bring us to your house so we can make out, then leave your room, let us make out in your room. Then when we're done, drive her home and drive me home, and then yourself home. And fucking did it. Legend.

SPEAKER_02 11:58

Nice. That's a bro, that's a bro.

SPEAKER_00 12:02

I think I got a couple of those calls at one point, too. I wasn't so broy about it. I don't know, she's it's really late.

SPEAKER_05 12:14

But uh, yeah, man. So but I hooked up with you. We hooked up. Well, we should maybe we should talk about some low budget films of the Badlanders.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

Yeah, so okay, let's yeah, we met in ninth grade. I remember Moside's class. Um, and I remember you were always around. I think we started probably hanging out like in at Oli. Yeah. Uh probably in graphics class, right? Eric Emmons, Eric Emmons class. Yeah. We did screen printing and video production and all that stuff. Which was awesome.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:42

Yeah. So yeah, you and I were talking the other day about just everything we had access to in high school at Olympic back then, which was insane.

SPEAKER_05 12:51

By the way, didn't you say you took class uh uh guitar class with Ben Gibbard?

SPEAKER_00 12:56

Yeah, so I mean we had okay, so only we had the music theory class, which was taught by McVicker, and in that class we had access to like an awesome drum set, awesome bass guitar, synthesizers, like four-track recording, basically a recording studio that you can use whenever you wanted. And then I remember they set up like he had some outside dude come in and set up like a guitar club after school, and like every guitar player in Olympic showed up to that. I think Gibbard was there. I remember Dale was there, me and Gabe were there, Johnny was there, and a couple other people too, like on the periphery of that scene. But yeah, like a bunch of people just showed up to hang out and like learn about music and jam together. But um, yeah, so we had that, and you I mean you could go directly from music theory. I think I had music theory in the morning and then graphics after lunch. So we could like take the demo that we made in the recording studio, take it over to Eric Emman's class, duplicate it, you know, design and print covers for it, print the t-shirt and the flyer. Yeah, yeah, do this. And then like go back to guitar club after school and like hang out, you know. I'm sorry, take it back next to the graphics class. We had the art, like the art studio. So I think Chihan, you were over there. Yeah, totally, man. Doing art, and then you know, we were always kind of back and forth, people making art over there and you know, doing screen printing and uh graphics. Yeah, then we'd go back to guitar club after class and like talk about the shit we did, and it was just like this whole community of like art from like every step of the process was right there.

SPEAKER_05 14:27

I wonder if it's like that nowadays. Did me did Mia say it was like that?

SPEAKER_01 14:31

Like she wasn't really involved in any of that stuff, and she she didn't go to Oli. But uh yeah, it was like a like a free DIY punk workshop. Like you could just do whatever you wanted and like make whatever you wanted and fucking yeah, so it's pretty cool. I made like my first project in that graphics class was I made a a poster for Lollapalooza when it was at the the pavilion. Sweet, which I still had that, but uh I got an A. That was the only thing I did the whole the whole semester was make a flyer for Lollapalooza, and then Emmons gave me an A for the class.

SPEAKER_05 15:09

So I mean, what about Brant Richardson, the English teacher?

SPEAKER_00 15:14

Oh yeah, that guy was mind-blowing too.

SPEAKER_05 15:16

Dude, he was so good. That guy used to write me fucking passes to go smoke cigarettes outside.

SPEAKER_00 15:23

Yeah, I don't he was one of the better teachers there too. And he didn't, I don't know, all he cared about was like blowing our minds. Yeah, totally like every book he'd give us a read and every lecture, it was just like I don't care what you do, just like have an you know, have a reaction to this, like fucking live your life, you know.

SPEAKER_05 15:42

And so wait, and we didn't write a book report, we did um that movie. What was the movie we did for his class? Oh yeah, was it the one where I was the dad?

SPEAKER_00 15:51

And like Yeah, it was the theme of the semester was dehumanization.

SPEAKER_05 15:55

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:56

So remember he had us read like the jungle, like all these real hardcore books, and like our our takeaway was dehumanization of pot smokers by their parents. Yeah, you're you're our dad. Oh yeah, and also had like it was Sonny and Wally, right? Basically Sonny and Wally. I don't think we had our beanies on, but yeah, basically smoking pot in our room, and you were watching you were watching porno downstairs and we were being too loud and interrupting you.

SPEAKER_05 16:27

But like you guys were being too loud smoking pot.

SPEAKER_00 16:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 16:31

So I and then I caught you and it was like a beat down.

SPEAKER_00 16:34

It was a beat down, and you just berated us. Like, you guys are gonna be bums living in Seattle in a cardboard box. That's what happens on the pot. A plus. He loved it. I'm that's the only time I've seen him. Like, we showed him a couple other low budget films, but that was the only time I've seen him like crying with laughter.

SPEAKER_05 16:52

It was so funny. Well, you did some uh brilliant directorial work, getting some like really close insert shots of my hands, like pretending to grab boobies, and like, ooh yeah. Where is this? I think I might have it somewhere. Maybe we'll try to find it and play it.

SPEAKER_00 17:12

But uh yeah, it might have been. Yeah, yeah, that was classic. Yeah, I think we we edited some of the low budget films like uh the fat kid movie and Alphabet Spaghetti. I think we edited those over in the graphics class too.

SPEAKER_05 17:28

Dude, I watched I I was digitizing a lot of these things recently, like backing up my files, and I watched some Alphabet Spaghetti. It was fucking awesome. Nice dude. Dave Ames and Brian Campbell. Brian Campbell just killing it, dude.

SPEAKER_01 17:40

Totally. I have the like original screenplay of Alphabetti Spaghetti somewhere in my archives.

SPEAKER_05 17:50

Oh, dude, who who is the guy who what was the name of the actor who played the guy with uh like the bunt, the bigger guy who is like fucking weed whacker and was like running around.

SPEAKER_00 18:03

Dude, that was Doug.

SPEAKER_05 18:05

Oh yeah, Doug.

SPEAKER_00 18:06

Doug Bo.

SPEAKER_01 18:08

Dougbo. Like Doug Doug, the uh MXPX like mascot guy.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

Yeah, the uh the magician.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

Yeah, Doug the Magician, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:18

Yeah, yeah. He opened, dude. Oh my god. We had him uh Disembodied was playing at the zoo cafe one time, and I think it might have been the same night we opened for Coven. And I don't know how it came up. I was talking to Doug in graphics, and he was we were like, dude, you should come open for us, like with your magic show. And so he came out to the zoo cafe and like did his whole like you know, choreographed like musical routine with his magic tricks for a bunch of like metalheads.

SPEAKER_05 18:45

No way, so like one of those ones where it's like dun dun dun dun dun.

SPEAKER_00 18:48

Yeah, totally.

SPEAKER_05 18:50

Just like making balls at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_00 18:51

Yeah, and all these people that came over from Seattle to see Coven were just like standing there watching him, arms crossed.

SPEAKER_01 18:57

Like Yeah, I can imagine. I'm picturing like all those guys that did like little lame list, the lame list on Almost Live, just standing there, their arms crossed.

SPEAKER_00 19:07

Exactly, and that's what lame Doug Gordon.

SPEAKER_01 19:13

Was that his name? Doug Bow.

SPEAKER_00 19:14

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Doug Bow.

SPEAKER_05 19:17

But God, I mean, like, even at the time when we had all those wonderful, like uh, you know, just amenities as students in the arts, then the movies that came out that time. So, like you uh you know, I started getting into films via you. You were already like a connoisseur, like kind of showed me, you know, like the classics, dude, like Kubrick and shit. But like this is at the time when Tarantino's coming out. Like, I mean, like the Oscars of '94 is like insane. It's like Pulp Fiction, Shawshank, Forrest Gump, just like of golden age of film, even like the Kevin Smith movies and shit. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 19:53

Yeah, I mean, that was this. I think Clerk's was what, like '94.

SPEAKER_05 19:56

I think, yeah, a little bit before that, but then like Mall Rats was like right around then.

SPEAKER_00 20:00

Yeah, yeah. So when you have Kevin Smith, Tarantino, uh, Robert Rodriguez, Richard Link Ladder, who's just become fucking awesome.

SPEAKER_05 20:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:08

Um, yeah, like all that same year. Days of Confused, I think, came out in '93.

SPEAKER_01 20:12

Yeah, yeah. Totally.

SPEAKER_00 20:14

So Lost Highway, 97. God, amazing.

SPEAKER_01 20:17

Let's not forget the usual suspects in 97. Sanger.

SPEAKER_00 20:21

Right? Yeah. And the Stoned Age. Oh, yeah. Dude, Stoned Age.

SPEAKER_05 20:25

I just watched that the other day. Dude, the Stoned Age just came out with like a whole thing. I actually found like a Rich Wilkes, the writer, and I was uh on Facebook, and I was like, dude, send me the script, man. I gotta read this. Because I need to know like if all those what amount of that like language in that movie is improved. Yeah, what is just pure scripted? Like, it was every single time he was like, fuck you, worm. Did he come up with that on the page? Or you know? Um he responded and said every single thing they wrote was in the movie, except for one scene that got cut. Oh wow. But uh, but yeah, man. No, um, but so cool, man. Any other B Town story type stuff that you want to get into?

SPEAKER_00 21:08

Or oh, let's see. I mean, there's so um so many you know, in college doing low budget films, I don't know how interesting interesting that's gonna be to anybody else. But you remember those nights drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes at Sherri's, and then we go out and like film the egg beater theory.

SPEAKER_05 21:27

Dude, so many great locations, man. Like what were the locations of the egg beater theory? The kids at Pavilion.

SPEAKER_00 21:34

Yeah, that's right, Kids At Pavilion.

SPEAKER_05 21:36

And then I'd like to cruising down Illyhe.

SPEAKER_00 21:40

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

I don't know if I've ever seen the egg beater theory.

SPEAKER_05 21:46

It's a classic, dude. But then they have it had a trench coat rockers. Oh. I remember the it starts with like Ryan's character, and he's like, Dear mom and dad, I'm running away from home. You don't understand.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

And they had uh so there's a homeless guy there, and he was cruising in and out of the kitchen, like bringing out food and stuff like that. And I think Mike was like, oh my god. I can't believe this. How are they letting this guy in the kitchen? This is horrible. We need to film this. We're gonna sue Denny's.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 22:43

Wait a minute. Sounds very Mike. So, oh yeah. So you wait, we went and got a fucking camera to film the bum serving food in order to sue Denny. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:55

We were at East Bremerton Denny's over off of I think Sylvan Way. And I lived like 15 minutes away. And I got in my car and like drove all the way home and drove all the way back to get the camera so we could like discreetly sit there and you know film this dude just helping out or doing whatever he was doing. I think we talked to one of the servants who's like, oh yeah, we let him hop out sometimes. This is like you know, pay for his meal and coffee. So we had it in our head it was just gonna be like this payday for us. Incredible.

SPEAKER_05 23:26

Yeah, a bunch of morons.

SPEAKER_01 23:30

My brother's very litigious.

SPEAKER_05 23:33

He was always coming up with the scam. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:36

He still is probably.

SPEAKER_05 23:38

Oh yeah, he still is, man. What was your best show favorite show in B Town Claw?

SPEAKER_00 23:43

Oh god. I mean, I think some of the Badlanders parties were like some of the most fun.

SPEAKER_05 23:49

Definitely.

SPEAKER_00 23:50

Um Dude, let's talk about a couple quick Badlanders. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 23:53

Okay. So Badlanders was uh was Gabe Sink, Ryan Moores, Mike Kennedy, and me on vocals. Which, let's face it, I was more of a fanboy to the scene, and you guys were like the actual musicians, but you just let me be a moron on the mic. But we were pretty fucking hardcore. We had some pretty cool songs.

SPEAKER_00 24:14

Yeah, I mean that that was like the first band I was ever in, where I wasn't really trying to like be a good musician. I just wanted to like get up and make noise and have fun.

SPEAKER_03 24:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:24

And I think that's why it was so good. Like we were all in that same had that same attitude, and it was just get up and be obnoxious and fucking, you know, punk rock. It was fucking fun. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_05 24:36

Dude, what so what was your favorite Badlander show? This is a good question to ask you.

SPEAKER_00 24:40

Oh I don't remember. It was at somebody's party in their backyard, they had a stage and like a like a uh you know, like a sound guy and everything in PA. I think we got through like maybe one song, one and a half songs, and got shut off.

SPEAKER_05 24:55

Power cut off.

SPEAKER_00 24:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 24:58

I was there. Is it because we were being too like crass? Yes.

SPEAKER_00 25:01

Oh yeah, people were throwing beer bottles at us and like spitting on us.

SPEAKER_01 25:04

It was like old, like kind of biker-y kind of kind of people. And it was off of uh Newberry Hill Road. I remember exactly where it was. Oh, yeah, I remember this. The other band playing was called Sockeye Sam.

SPEAKER_00 25:18

Yeah, totally.

SPEAKER_05 25:21

Oh yeah, and then I was like, didn't I think it was like a big conspiracy? Like, you can't silence us.

SPEAKER_00 25:28

Oh, totally. Yeah, I was like, we played a couple songs and it was awesome, and then they, you know, there were people were going nuts and spitting on us and throwing beer and like it was fun, and then they shut us off, and for you know, 30 seconds it was like kind of a big deal. Like, let him play, let him play. You know, we're shouting, let us play. And then it was over, and like we all walked away, and you were still up there like, let us fucking play.

SPEAKER_05 25:53

I remember that one. Do you remember the studio 321 show we played in Olympia?

SPEAKER_00 25:57

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 25:58

With like fucking somebody that show was badass.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

Yeah, I remember Word on the Street was like all the riot girls are gonna kick your ass at that show. Like all the Olympia riot girls, and they're all gonna come down and and so like the whole drive down there, I think was like an hour and a half, two hours to get to Olympia. Yeah, just like what the fuck are we doing? Why are we doing this? And we played and it was awesome.

SPEAKER_05 26:21

It was awesome, and like all the girls were like, Yeah, yeah, that those guys are hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 26:25

Yeah, I just very specifically remember everyone like there was no adult supervision there, and like we're all just like underage drinking in this fucking like in this just little art studio, just over in the corner. I got a 40 of Mickey's with Brooke or something.

SPEAKER_05 26:45

So awesome. And then the high school graduation party change swilly's dude was fucking epic. It's the first scene of my book, you know?

SPEAKER_00 26:53

Nice. Yeah, his parties were awesome. We were playing like playing all those. I think I think the Spud Boys played a few too.

SPEAKER_05 27:01

Yeah. Fucking legendary little duplex that was.

SPEAKER_01 27:09

Where Spud Boys and Endless Descent played together. And it was like a it was a Spodie party. Me and Shane and Dan Ryan had gone around all day and bought a bunch of fucking monarch vodka and a bunch of rotting fruit and throwing up. So gross. So wasted.

SPEAKER_05 27:32

But uh, yeah, man, good fucking times, dude.

SPEAKER_00 27:34

Yeah, yeah, those those parties were fun to play. Uh, I remember a couple of good shows at the Jackson Hall with the Badlanders. We actually got to finish our set. I think opening for uh Jack Trippers. So great. Another big band.

SPEAKER_05 27:46

And um I I distinctly remember, Claude, when we were heading up to college, like it was like kind of or after that show, like you would always have to take a little toothbrush and clean like all the beer and spit and blood out of your pickups on the phone.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

That was part of the routine. Yeah, I'd take my I because I had that Jackson, which was like my baby. Yeah, every time we played, it was just covered with loogies and beer and blood.

SPEAKER_01 28:09

Signs of signs of a great show.

SPEAKER_05 28:11

Totally. Well, uh, always awesome uh to talk to you, man. Thanks for coming on the show. I think you're off. Uh thank you for listening to another wonderful episode of B-Tone Stories with Schnazzle and Jerry on Schnazzle. I'm Jerry. And until next time, my friends. Take her easy.

SPEAKER_04 29:04

Oh my god. Yeah. Hey, hey dad, you busy? Yeah, I'm watching a movie. Get the hell out of here. Okay, I'll just be in my room.

SPEAKER_03 29:21

The coast is clear. Check this out, dude. I think we pick this up, dude. Is that cool? It's all good, man. He's downstairs watching that.

SPEAKER_04 29:36

Yeah. Take it off, baby. Do it. Yeah. Oh my god. Oh, that's it. I'm coming up there.

SPEAKER_03 31:01

Don't worry, dude. Stay downstairs, watch it. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 31:45

Keep that crap down. Watch the movie.

SPEAKER_03 31:55

What the are you? What are you doing? You've been smoking down for amateur!

unknown 32:00

I'm sorry!

SPEAKER_03 32:01

I'm sure you! You guys be smoking down for your amateur!

unknown 32:13

You beat the crowd! Come here! You're gonna say that! Come here!

SPEAKER_03 32:30

You can't get up!

unknown 32:32

Shut up! Last time!

SPEAKER_03 32:46

This is drugs! This is your brain on drugs!

SPEAKER_04 33:08

Alright, boys. I'm your paps! Huh? I know what's best for ya! Let me tell you this. When you do drugs, you're gonna amount to nothing! See you sleeping in a box in Seattle, bumming chains for a living, and you remember this day, kids! You remember this, boys! Your pat knows what's right for ya. You remember this day I caught you smoking dope in your room. Alright. You guys are worthless. You guys are stumbags.

SPEAKER_01 33:43

B Town Stories is a red cobra production. Created, produced, and written by Snazzle Simpkins and Jerry Lagarde. Also produced by Kevin L. Jones, with theme song by the Supple Dongs, and logo design from Darren Chalman.