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Top Shelf Stories
Peeing on the Floor: Concert Mishaps and Misunderstandings
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We dive into the therapeutic power of live music and the unforgettable experiences that come with concert-going culture. Chris shares his impressive tally of 104 Umphrey's McGee shows and the unique connections formed in their fan community.
• Concerts as full experiences: buying tickets in advance, planning travel, arranging accommodations
• The mystery of Chris's friend getting kicked out of a Minnesota show for allegedly "peeing on the floor"
• Debate on concert etiquette: the passionate defense of standing versus sitting at rock shows
• How live music serves as "therapeutic medication for the mind" regardless of sobriety
• Recognition and community-building among regular concertgoers across different venues
• Stories of stage diving, crowd surfing, and other physical aspects of concert participation
• The joy of making connections with fellow fans and remembering personal details
Want to join us at an upcoming show? Chris mentions Summerfest is coming up - stay tuned for details!
Concert Culture & Ticket Adventures
Speaker 1Top Shelf Stories with J, chris and Tony. What do you guys want to hear about? I want to hear you do a foreign accent. I don't have any foreign accents. Couldn't I hear you try to do one? No, just try. No, you were about to. It was so cool, it was.
Speaker 2It was like should I go Australian?
Speaker 1You did look like you were going to try. It was so close. Should I go Australian? He did look like you were going to try. No, what would be a foreign accent? Anything but our accent. Anything outside of Wisconsin?
Speaker 2Anything outside of the.
Speaker 1Tri-County area Talk, not northern. So I do travel a bit. As you guys know, like to go mostly to concerts, right, oh, it's perfect intro for that too. So you guys don't go to a lot of concerts, but going to a concert is a fucking blast I feel like I go to quite a few concerts and then it's a whole event right, it's kind of like going to a sporting event or like you're talking about not just one day concert, you're talking about like a like well like if you go to, if you let's say you're going to like.
Speaker 1In this case, I tell a story about the trip we took to minnesota for a concert can I guess the band?
Speaker 2um freeze mcgee'm, freeze McGee so you, basically you get yourself.
Speaker 1You got to buy tickets months in advance.
Speaker 2What's the show about?
Speaker 1It's not important, but it's a rock show, rock and roll.
Speaker 2No, I'm saying our show today.
Speaker 1Going to concerts Okay.
Speaker 2I don't have a topic story.
Speaker 1But so it's a whole event, right, you get yourself psyched up. You got to buy tickets in advance. You got to plan the trip. You got to get a hotel. You got to figure out, like, what are you going to do for food? Are you going to fucking hotel lobby lunch it with the microwave? Are you going to go to a bar and have some food? Are you going to go to a dinner, whatever? And like you guys were saying, I'll often go, I'll go like to four or five, two or three, one or three concerts in a row. Right, so it can be daunting, you can get. You're getting drunk all the time. You're eating shitty food. You're traveling.
Speaker 1Sounds terrible, your wits can get about you. And then you go to the concert and you have a fucking blast. You see friends, people, things, all this. You have a fucking blast. You see friends, people, things, all this. But a lot of times what happens is you get kind of drunk because, like there's like three or four, four or five hours. You got nothing to do, but you're all ramped up and excited. So crazy shit happens on concerts. So when you get drunk do you get to a point where, uh, you feel like you don't want to eat because you want to keep your buzz going. No, no, but I often don't have an appetite and forget to eat and continue to drink I think, it's because you don't want your buzz to leave.
Speaker 1That's the whole reason you don't eat I mean for me.
Speaker 2That's what I do when I I don't, I'm not like that.
Speaker 1I, if I was like, oh, I'm hungry, like sweet, I ate. Now I can pound eight more beers. True that, yes. And now I'm not a delirious, useless piece of shit stumbling over my own toes because I'm malnourished and drunken.
Speaker 2Are you staring at me explaining myself?
Speaker 1at some. Well to say you don't want to eat to keep your buzz going. Dude that's not who doesn't want to do that. I think you're the only one that does that. I would disagree with that. I feel there's a lot more people that do Like you get to a point in the night where you're like, okay, now I probably should eat, yeah, and then you eat and you smash and fall asleep with one foot on the floor.
Umphrey's McGee: 104 Shows & Counting
Speaker 1Then you wake up and think the world's spinning at 345 and throw up hamburger meat from your dad's shit spoon. I used to steal beef jerky at the gas station and eat that shit. Get full on beef jerky after a night of drinking. It was amazing. Miss those days, yeah. So I mean, I don't know. We go out to concerts and things get wild. Same thing with, like a sporting event or any event. Really you get wild. You eat too much food, you stay up too late.
Speaker 2Event really you get wild you eat too much food, you stay up too late, yada, yada, yada. Well, my guy buoy, one time are we talking about the legendary mr buoy burger? Buoy burger. And just for you people at home, that is not a stage name, that's a real man, is his last name burger. Yeah, and his first name is buoy no I knew that I didn't know his last name Burger.
Speaker 1Yeah, and his first name is Bowie. No, I knew that. I didn't know. His last name was actually Burger.
Speaker 2How is?
Speaker 1it spelled Is it B-E U-G, something weird. The king copied him, man. The king copied him. Are you serious? Burger King?
Speaker 2It's the burger.
Speaker 1Nice. So, like I don't know how to keep this story to be longer than it should be, but you don't have to keep it longer, just so you go to you go to the shows and we're we fucking rock out dude, we have a blast.
Speaker 2So. So here's a question, because, um, so I don't, I don't have like a small band, I follow, I follow like that, like you do, like he called your band small, sure?
Speaker 1well, I mean, I was at a house. I sent Chris a picture of a backstage pass to Umphrey's, mcgee's, whatever the fuck it is, and I was like no way there's such a big band.
Speaker 2You can't even remember their full name right, umphrey's McGee.
Speaker 1Yeah, I remember the picture. See, there's such a big band you can't even remember their full name Umphreys McGee. Yeah, I remember the picture. Yeah, I do At a very rich establishment.
Speaker 2We're not talking about going to a Taylor Swift concert.
Speaker 1Right, no, we're not.
Speaker 2They're just different things.
Speaker 1They play venues that fit between 4,500 and 1,500 people.
Speaker 2They have a super dedicated following.
Speaker 1I recognize people at almost every show I go to, regardless of what state I'm in. That's kind of crazy. That's kind of crazy.
Speaker 2Give me just a round number. You don't have to go on your tracking app or anything. But how many shows you been to? By them? 104. Okay.
Speaker 1Because it was just 100. Oddly specific. I just checked it because we just went to one. I added more to the tracker so there's.
Speaker 2I mean, aside from going to work, not many things I've done over a hundred times right I thought about that today.
Speaker 1Do you think um umphrey mcgee is? I spent like a third of one year of my life at a concert we'll have we'll have a crypto at one point and would you buy it? I don't know if they've done nft style ticketing there you go. They already did it and and uh um concert. Uh downloads I speak of crypto I speak of cryptos just because, chris, every time we come to this podcast, he talks about cryptos for about 45 minutes. They also released their album as a NFT that you could download for everyone so yeah, they would do that.
Speaker 1They've done it. But yeah, so they. You know they fill a venue. It's a good time. That's a lot of people though. But yeah, so they fill a venue, it's a good time, that's a lot of people though. 4,500? Yeah, in the bigger places. I mean, I went to an arena show in Kalamazoo. There was probably like 4,000, 3,000 people there, 5,000? I don't know All right. Out of the 107 shows you have seen 104. 104.
Speaker 2You're just exaggerating like a motherfucker.
Speaker 1Two of those were accompanied by your wife, maybe like six. Why is that funny?
Speaker 2I don't get the joke. Out of 104, that's strikeout four, if you put this as a fast baseball average, you'd be pretty bad.
Speaker 1No team would want you. Yeah, I don't want to be on the go-to-concert-with-my-wife team.
Speaker 2Damn.
Speaker 1It doesn't sound like very much fun, to be honest, with you.
Speaker 2Yeah, like.
Speaker 1I've done it and it's not as much fun.
Speaker 2What did you say? Having somebody there, you gotta be nice to Well, someone you have to take care of. Why do you have to take?
Speaker 1care of her you gotta make. They're part of your party and they're not a 40 year old male that takes care of themselves.
Speaker 2I don't know when Bowie Berger has too many Miller Lights. He didn't ask you to hold his hair.
Speaker 1Exactly, I don't care. I've literally walked this guy up the hill and had him, like dude, sit here and let him down.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I don't need to keep playing that game.
Speaker 2What did you just decide not to sit on the couch? He's trying to go.
Speaker 1My mic's not long enough, are you?
Speaker 2sure, yeah, no, I'm good.
Speaker 1I'll help you out bro.
Speaker 2I almost said a bad word.
Speaker 1So we were out at this one and in minnesota it happened to be my hundredth show and I think buoy had two. Do they shout you out on the stage? I tried to get them to, but they didn't know.
Speaker 2A bunch of dicks how do you what kids through college I was?
Speaker 1telling everybody about how it was my hundredth show when I had the opportunity, because, fuck, it only happens one time.
Speaker 2That's a pretty good.
The Mysterious Floor-Peeing Incident
Speaker 1Was outlined in glow tape on your back I think there was a number 100 on my back, and then people are like oh yeah, I've seen 100. I remember my 100th show. I'm like oh, fuck you, but I do remember. After the show they're like I was walking out and I saw some people I knew and I was like see you later.
Speaker 1and they're like oh man, we were cheering for you so hard when they called out you for your 100th show, because it was someone else's 100th show that day and they did call that person out.
Speaker 2Like Steve or something.
Speaker 1Like Steve, for coming out for your 100th time. Those people were excited for me so do they because they have so many songs? Do they have like a giant fishbowl that people throw paper into, that chews a song and then they just pick a giant fishbowl that people throw on paper into that, choose a song and then they just pick out of the?
Speaker 2it's not a dueling piano bar. They don't do that. I'm thinking of like, uh, what's?
Speaker 1that pizza place down by on fucking national organ pizza where you get the fucking guy to play your song they actually take concert.
Speaker 2Chris travels the united states to go to is a dude, like a fucking 80-year-old dude at an organ trying to play Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1No, I always make him play a Star Wars theme song. Next time you're in there, have him play the Chattanooga.
Speaker 2Choo Choo if you want to see some good organ. Seriously, oh yeah, dude the.
Speaker 1Chattanooga Choo Choo. Do you know of this? Song it's from the 20s. It's an orchestra song. The guy wrote it to sound like a train coming into town. It's so awesome dude. There's shuffling of people's shoes inside this track. Anyways, you should have him play that he's pretty good at it Off our gates, so text me. He's pretty good at it.
Speaker 2Oh, I forgot. I could just see the fucking in our text chain like a month from now. Chris you're not going to believe this shit.
Speaker 1I'm at the Oregon Piper Pizza and I need to know what the fuck you told me on the podcast.
Speaker 2What was that?
Speaker 1song you told me to play, like the Nashville Hustle. I definitely already forgot it, but go ahead, chris. So we're in Minnesota, we're at the show, we're partying, we're jamming, dancing, singing, got a group together having a blast and there's like. Their shows are normally like an hour and a half hour and 15 minutes to an hour and a half First set, 15 to a half hour break hour. Hour and a half Second. 15 minutes to an hour and a half first set. 15 to a half hour break hour. Hour and a half second set. They play a long show, little three minute like thank you very much thing. They go backstage, they come back out and they'll play a track or two. Right, really getting your money's worth, I'm gonna give you a three hour show I mean it's a three, three and a half hour show.
Speaker 1Wow, that's like a cover band. So we are, I'm standing there, I'm in, we're like five rows of people from the front. I like to stand on the left hand side by the main guitarist are there assigned seating?
Speaker 2no it's not normally, or is it just just general? There's no seats right some venues have.
Speaker 1Most venues do have some seats. Most of them are just open seating. Some venues will sell like tickets to the upper level that's seated, and tickets to the lower which you can just stand in. Uh, some venues do have like seated areas where you buy like seat 26a and you sit there. No one really you know hippies hang out, rock show, so so yeah, I mean this happened to be at first avenue, which is an all, I believe, all standing venue, more or less all standing couple bars all around.
Speaker 2It's like a cube those are the best ones. Now I'm in my 40s and that just that sounds like a miserable.
Speaker 1No, those are the best ones, my friend recently had to leave a show because we were at this venue and they had no seats anywhere, nothing to sit onto or lean onto. He couldn't help it anymore, so he's like I found myself in the bathroom on the toilet because I could sit down and he heard that from there. And then he's like I'm just going home.
Speaker 2Just sitting down in cocaine residue? I guess I don't know, that's pathetic.
Speaker 1He was like I'm not gonna sit anymore. No, yeah, I go to. I've never had seating at a concert I've ever been to, ever I got a good. Those are my kind of shows ever. I got a quick sidebar on seating. We were at a tool concert. You know the band tool.
Speaker 2Of course I mean tony might not, I do I know their one good song At the Okay, sing it, hum it, something like I'm a loser, something like that. Are you thinking?
Speaker 1of fucking. This is a rock show, weezer. You think of Weezer. They're known for their visual art, part of their whole performance.
Speaker 2They've been around from the they're very scripted, though.
Speaker 1The whole thing's very scripted. It's a whole show. Every show's the same On tour. If you went to two in a row, you'd see the same show twice in a row, Not 90s. It's very orchestrated and at the show it's still rock, dude. It's kind of aggressive rock, flashing lights and shit. And we're standing and some bitch got pissed off at us because we were standing in our seats. She's like can you sit down, dude? This is a fucking rock show.
Speaker 2No, I will not sit down. You told her no, no, I will not sit down. You're such a dick.
Speaker 1Fuck you, bitch.
Speaker 2Stand up. I agree, you're at a fucking rock show. It's not the orchestra. No, you bought the fucking seat. No, you bought the fucking ticket To get in the door. Use it, motherfucker.
Speaker 1You're not watching a fucking play, you're not watching a fucking Nah dude.
Speaker 2I bet you that's what she was wishing. She was watching, yeah well.
Speaker 1She should have bought a fucking ticket To the play then.
Speaker 2Yeah, no, you don't go to a pool show no, and sit down I don't even have seats?
Speaker 1why do they even have seats? Throw those fuckers out. So anyways, yes, so yeah, I told that girl to suck it yeah put in her face. No but shoulda. These are standing mostly, and I like like to stand. So we're up there, four or five people rows-ish from the front of everything.
Speaker 2That's a good spot, it's where I love to be, that's where my spot is. Everyone thinks it's too crowded. How much does that cost?
Speaker 1They're all the same price, general admission. Well, that's weird. Everyone thinks it's too crowded, but it's really not. It's the same. Just people wait a second. Is it first in, first serve or first?
Speaker 2uh, don't, don't go to things with your wife and you'll learn how to get around by yourself.
Speaker 1Yeah, find yourself up front at the show. Okay is that, but that's how it works. I don't know I don't either. It goes it goes like hey, bud, what's up? Man, hey, how are you doing? Hey, I'm doing good. Too nice to meet you, and then you just stand there too.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't know I imagine drink, drink in your hand, drinking hand over exaggerated white guy sway sure, back and forth hanging out bopping around balances.
Speaker 1We're. We're now. This is like, I think, our fourth show along this little run we were on. So he's fucking exhausted. I pretty exhausted, but he had drank a little too much. Apparently he's standing behind me. It's like a guy behind me, our crew's all behind me. Show's almost over. There's like three or four songs left. Maybe I get a tap on the shoulder by this guy I know, and he's like hey yo, what's up with your buddy? And I'm like what do you mean? He goes. I don't know Some security guy came by him. He showed him his ID and then they left. I'm like what? What do you mean? He left. He's like I don't know the guy your guy booey or whatever left with the security guard. And I'm like oh fuck, that's not a good thing, right, your friend gets. I'm like, alright, thanks for telling me what the fuck am I going to do about it?
Speaker 2What a polite crowd.
Speaker 1I mean, they're his friends too. I know these guys. I talked to them recently again and we told stories and the story gets to that night. So I'm like what the fuck happened and I'm like I got to find out. So is this bands playing? I'm fucking text. Where the fuck did you go? Like where the fuck did you go? I don't get a response right away, but then I get a response and we chat too much. Since then it's been over a year, but I wish I could go back. It's something along the lines of the text was I'm outside, they kicked me out for peeing on the floor. Oh, I look at it. I'm like oh god.
Speaker 2And I just put it back in my pocket. I'm like nope, I'm not doing this, like not my problem standing there.
Speaker 1I'm like what the fuck in my head? I'm like what the fuck? And then the show ends and the guys are like what did the buoy say? I'm like I don't know. I gotta go fucking find him. He sent me this, said he peed on the floor. We had this big, great, big laugh and I'm like did you guys like you were behind me, you were sitting next to me, you noticed him get taken out of here. Did he like pee on the floor? Did you feel? Feel?
Concert Etiquette: Standing vs. Sitting
Speaker 1anything warm sprinkle on you, like what did they? And they're like dude, I don't know, I don't, I don't know, I don't know which. I don't think that that happened, but I don't know. So I get outside and he's being like watched by this lady, like this poor lady sitting next to the front door, like just standing there by the marquee or whatever. I come out, I'm like dude, let's get the fuck out of here. It's like no, dude, I got to tell my story to this bitch, you got to hear it, and he's telling me in front of her. I'm like dude, calm the fuck, like I don't care, right, so he calms down a little bit. I'm like what the fuck happened, dude? He's like I don't know.
Speaker 1Apparently, literally, this guy came out, he tapped me on the shoulder, he asked me for id. I showed him my id and like then he's like, let's go talk. So I went with them to talk and then they just took me out of here and he said that somebody told him that I whipped my dick out and peed on the floor. Dude, did you? Did you pee on the floor?
Speaker 2He's like dude, really Like you think I just like my pants aren't full Like disrespect. Humphreys McGee, like that he's like dude, why would I do that?
Speaker 1Right, is your dick that big you?
Speaker 2can whip it out.
Speaker 1It went on as a mystery. He didn't know why. He got kicked out of this place and he's super pissed for the whole next day and never let it go. A couple other times and ran jokes like I can't go back to Minnesota because I can't go anywhere there without them thinking I piss on the floor. What does he think now today? So I'm at a concert with Bowie about two weekends ago. Same band Okay, same group of dudes all around me, my same guys.
Speaker 1They're from Appleton, madison area Dun dun, dun they're there too, they were going to go to Minneapolis, which is a year now. Later, we were going to go to Minneapolis, which is a year now. Later, we were going to go to Minneapolis. We didn't end up going, we went to Green Bay, then Madison. We're at Madison. This time Bowie's like in front of me, right instead of behind me. We're jamming, rocking, having a good time, yeah.
Speaker 2so now he's just splashing your feet.
Speaker 1Second set. He's standing in front of me, he drops his beer on the ground and it spills and leaves a big wet spot on the ground and I just thought to myself I'm like dude, this is what happened.
Speaker 2He turns around and he goes.
Speaker 1Oh no, not again, dude. We kept him in there. He was next to some pretty girl dude. I kept him like stuck in the spot where he was standing in his own piss for the last five minutes of this show. I kept yelling about how it smelled like urine. He kept turning around like shut up dude, this is going to get me kicked out. Do you not think that was his ultimate plan? I'm like man. How come every time?
Speaker 2I go to Humphrey's.
Speaker 1Someone pisses on the floor and everyone's around me laughing. Do you not think that was his ultimate plan to deceive the fact that he did not? Thought that was like I did not pee the first time. Here's what I really did. So here's this is the question I have to you. So, like 80, 90 of the times, I'm more wanting to get in the face of things and I'm in front of the guy. This time he's in front of me and he turns around and says, oops, yeah, so did he pee on the ground? He's in front of me and he turns around and says, oops, yeah, so did he pee on the ground? That's the question, of course.
Speaker 2I think this was his version of a very long form joke. No, that he waited a whole year for the punchline. Oops.
Speaker 1Dude. The look on his face. I'll never forget it for my whole life. I took a picture of him standing in the water so that it's on my phone in case I ever forget that. Look when he turns around and goes uh-oh, not again. He never wants to be known as the guy that pisses. Oh, he is. That's why he did that two weeks ago To clarify that. To clear his name, clear, clarify, and yeah, no, you didn't do that, but I want you guys to come with me to a show.
Speaker 2Yeah, let's go An. I'm Praised McGee show. I would do one show. It needs to happen. There's one coming up. It's got to be local.
Speaker 1I ain't going to Indiana. Okay, here, this one doesn't really count. It's definitely not in really count because it's a summer fest show. Summer fest shows are different. Because it's fucking summer fest, exactly. Everyone hates it. You got to stand on the stupid bleachers. Plus, they only give the band an hour and a half, like max maybe even an hour ten.
Speaker 2They don't even know how to play an hour and ten set. You only like summer fest if you don't live in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1Every song that they play at these sets is like accelerated. There's not as much jamming out, as much fun and there's only one set Sometimes the second set when everyone like gets into the groove. Then they go out and smoke a cigarette, get a beer, piss it out, come back in after talking to their friends for a little bit, that second set of music Always.
Speaker 2So it's not the same, but Summerfest is coming. What?
Speaker 1is your ploy. You should come. Oh, so you're asking us to go to Summerfest or otherwise? There's a camping festival in northwestern Wisconsin.
Speaker 2If it's during the week In Labor Day, if it's during the week at Summerfest, it's not.
Speaker 1They don't even do the weeks anymore. They only do Thursday, Friday, Saturday or something.
Speaker 2Well, Thursdays during the week.
Speaker 1Friday, saturday, sunday they only do. That's what it is, but it is a Saturday, it's the first Saturday, the first Saturday, and it's at what venue? I don't know, at Summerfest. No, I mean, I don't know, but you'll want to be with me all day. There's a whole bunch of good things going on. I'll need you for the whole day. We'll get in with our three times pass. Our new top shelf stories pass. I can't even say that.
Speaker 1But, yeah, man, I could tell you guys stories about going to concerts all the time, but it's really not going to hit until you go to them and the audience. I'll bet you that, I'll bet you of all the things we've asked for in the chat in the chat. Send me a chat in the chat if you've gone to an Humphreys McGee show, and I'll bet you that there will be a lot of people there.
Speaker 2Well, yeah, because really only your people listen to our podcast. You're the only one who's got real friends.
Speaker 1Here's another thing, though, too If I'm drinking, you don't want me there.
Speaker 2No, I won't take care of you. I don't care.
Speaker 1Don't do that. So what you're just like trip me into, say, watch this guy fall and then walk away from him or something. No, just don't be a dumbass and take care of yourself.
Speaker 2I'm never a dumbass.
Speaker 1You're the 40-year-old man you think you are. I'm not 40. At all. Yeah, you're like 42.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I'm 42. I 42. Yeah, I'm 42. I'm not 40. You know what I'm saying. But yeah, watch out for your friends at shows. They might piss on your leg, dude. That's that All right. So we're talking about bands going to concerts. I haven't been there to a concert in 10 years. But yeah, I know, I think I have to take you up on that offer, chris. My soul hurts for you, dude, I know dude, I know dude, it sucks. Soul hurts.
Speaker 2When you have three.
Speaker 1It hurts deep. Hey, when you have just one child and it's a girl, you can do it if you fucking want. When?
Speaker 2you have three kids and a wife that will let you go when you have three boys, you can't do shit.
Speaker 1You're lying. You have baseball Soccer Time out. Fucking basketball Time out.
Speaker 2Fucking basketball. You have all these sports to play. Your kids ain't in any of that shit. You stop it right now Time out. They're not even in bicycle riding lessons.
Speaker 1If I call you, there's no such thing dick. Yo, if I call you on a Wednesday or a Tuesday at 8 o'clock and tell you that I'm going to.
Speaker 2I'm talking AM or.
Speaker 1PM 8.
Speaker 2PM and I'm talking am or pm 8 pm, and I'm telling you Because one of them is not going to be awake yet. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1And I'm telling you that I'm going to go to a concert and I'll buy your ticket and pick you up and drop you off. What about drinks?
Speaker 2Fine, I'll pay for all of your drinks. What about cigarettes?
Speaker 1The. What about cigarettes? The concert's at 10 o'clock and I call you at eight o'clock on a wednesday.
Speaker 2Can you go with me? I'm listening, shut up, I just. I just picture jay you pulling up to jay's house and him coming up to your window like where's the? Passenger side window. Wait for you to roll. It does like you got them smokes, All right.
Speaker 1I'm in, I don't smoke. Would you be able to go On what day? Any day, any of them? Oh, you got to let me know ahead of time. No, how often? Or I mean, how much of an advance do I know? I'll give you whatever numbers, whatever. All right, you make up the theoretical scenario. I need, like, you make up the theoretical scenario and I'm asking you to go with me. Can you go?
Speaker 2Yeah, I need like a year and a half advance notice With weekly reminders yes, and to the day of I need letters and signatures of your accomplishments and knowledge.
The Power of Live Music Therapy
Speaker 1I will tell you when we're going. You're going to need references. So this is a little biased, because this is my favorite thing to do. So it's a little biased, but I will tell you that I believe that listening to live music and going to concerts and surrounding yourself with other people is the most best mental health thing you can do, I agree. I agree is magic. You're right.
Speaker 1You ever see the youtube videos where they're like sit here if you're having a bad day and all the person does is play a nice song to the person's headphone and their entire face changes, they start the one I saw recently she started playing with her little baby in the stroller and she left and she was like super happy and it took the guy 45 seconds with a beat box and eight lyrics to make her happy. Music is magic, dude, and it makes it's. If I didn't, if I was not able to go to a concert every like three months or so that I do it, or less even normally, hopefully I'd go fucking nuts dude concert every like three months or so that I do it, or less even normally hopefully.
Speaker 1I'd go fucking nuts. Dude, I think you are a hundred percent accurate. Like I go crazy, I put on live streams on the TV and sit in my room with the lights off and fucking jam out for like an hour just to get it out. It is dance, it is a therapeutic medication for the mind it's, it's. It's something you can do without even saying it. You just feel, and you don't need to be high no.
Speaker 2I mean, it's better to be drunk. This doesn't even have to. You don't need to be high Dude, I've done plenty of shows drunk or straight sober.
Speaker 1Way more drunk, but plenty of shows straight sober. No, if you do really love the music, you can't be high or drunk. You have to feel it. I can go to any type of music personally too. It does not have to be my style. It can be your band, if you're sober, I got to be at something I really like.
Speaker 2Nah, then I got to be drunk Nah.
Speaker 1One of the best concerts I ever went to. I never thought I'd love enjoy being there was that throat-singing, screaming death metal band who, at the rave Black Dahlia Murder murderer, was the headliner there was four bands black dahlia murder is that a girl girl band?
Speaker 2no, dude, I remember you got that shirt oh, I got two shirts it was fucking awesome time dude, I mosh pitted.
Speaker 1I had sandals on.
Speaker 2I lost my sandals like you would never believe the whole whole time Like you would never believe.
Speaker 1The whole time I couldn't understand a lick of it, dude. That type of music gives me anxiety too.
Speaker 2It makes me feel weird.
Speaker 1It gives me this hurt inside my brain, so we know what to do when we want to hurt Chris.
Speaker 2That would be torture for me.
Speaker 1We get a megaphone and we go.
Speaker 2I get all like 80. It reminds me of the Stone Temple Pilots concert I went to. What that dude did the whole fucking concert. He did the whole concert through a megaphone.
Speaker 1Really.
Speaker 2That sounded like it was almost dead on battery.
Speaker 1What the fuck he's screaming into the fuck. Why did he do? He's a heroin addict.
Speaker 2That's why yeah, that was before he died, obviously, oh my God, but not that long before.
Speaker 1Look, Chris, I will take you up on that offer and let's do fucking live Any show, let's do it live. I don't know what that means. I don't know either.
Speaker 2I don't know what that means either let's do fucking sounds sexual, and when you say stuff like that, I kind of get why your wife doesn't want you to go to this shit how about right now?
Speaker 1I'm willing to look up to find a concert and go right now tonight.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1I got a big job due tomorrow.
Speaker 2I could be home by 1.30 amazing topic.
Speaker 1Great show, chris. We love concerts. Everybody, I can agree, can be. It's a therapeutic thing. I mean to go to a concert and not have to say a word, but to listen to the music and feel good. Who wants, who doesn't want to do something like that? Yeah, I mean it's like an anal probe and not getting anally probed.
Speaker 2I mean, I've been to like probably 30 concerts in my life, maybe 40, I don't know. A couple like two, three day things at alpine valley, yeah, shit, like that.
Speaker 1I've been to concerts in vegas like that's something I haven't done yet as a vegas show.
Speaker 2Like we see, it's a whole performance, it seems yeah, we've seen, uh, lincoln park before the dude killed himself nice for like the third time in vegas. Yeah, that's right, your wife likes lincoln park, loves him and tony, you hate him I wasn't always like this. She even made me go see creed Pre like 2010.
Speaker 1I probably went to like Five concerts and then.
Speaker 2Creed's back again.
Speaker 1Creed's back again.
Speaker 2But, uh, I like him, but I'm the dude who just stands there With like his arms crossed. Yeah, looks at people around me.
Speaker 1You don't even have to tell me that I don't fucking, I'm a dancer, I can see that.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm a dancer, I can see both, I can exactly see both what you are doing right now.
Speaker 1If there's a song playing, I'm arms in the air guy, I'm pumping up. The guy next to me guy, I'm looking back at people Because I like to go to the front. I look back and get them fucking going. Guy, I'm going to start the wave. Guy, I miss the days when they stage dived and you got from the front to the back or from the back to the front of the concert. I haven't been to enough of those style of concerts. But there is a guy I go to see. His name is andy frasco, and he does that and he encourages others to do it during the song.
Speaker 2he, he does that and it's, it is the best fucking I've never done it. I've never been up.
Speaker 1I can't describe the fact. Okay, I'm a little guy and people can not only lift me and hold me, throw you around, they can toss me up and down like a fucking beanbag.
Speaker 2So the one concert.
Stage Diving & Making Concert Connections
Speaker 1Yeah, go ahead. I feel like I'm playing a game. When I'm stage driving and I'm going up and down and up and down, someone's grabbing my nuts, they're grabbing my ass I mean literally, it's all men, but they're grabbing the shit out of my body. See, I don't know if I could do that. The one concert I was at that was doing a lot of that was that death metal, and all people did, though, is they'd push them to the front. No, they always do, cause they want to push you on stage. Yeah.
Speaker 2Why.
Speaker 1So you can get on stage next to the band Just like over the security, but you never do that, I know. But it's the, and then the security just kicks you out right, I know, but Cause you're not. Not if I thought all those guys were just like lemmings who fell off the cliff. No because you're not intentionally jumping on stage. You're trying to get on stage from the crowd and they're trying to throw you on stage. Yeah, not about that. I love it, dude. I get on stage every time.
Speaker 1I'd rather just wait out and try to meet the band backstage after. I mean that would be great too, but that doesn't always happen. No, it never happens.
Speaker 2It happened to me one time Okay, so that's why you keep trying.
Speaker 1That's why people keep throwing me up there like a rag doll Gonna get a fucking slingshot Word.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't know, I think for me. My version of what concerts are for you is me building something bizarre with my hands.
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't have that. There we go.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't have that that no one does that on concert you know and look what I made no, he's saying his like, no, like how he feels about rush situation, how they make him.
Speaker 1I'm just saying like if you had, a show, tony, that you played, you'd come up and say I do, I do kind of get although I didn't really do anything at the end I do kind of feel like I've accomplished something. I went out, I entered, you know I uh inter interjected into other people's conversations. I made new friends, made new acquaintances. I always make it a point.
Speaker 1You know, one of the things I learned or trained at concerts is like learning people's names remembering them remembering a fact about them, so that when you see them again because, dude, there's nothing better it makes people feel so good and you can see it in their eyes. When you've never really met them, you've only met them once or twice and they don't really recognize you, but they kind of do.
Speaker 2You're like ah, Frank with the big cock.
Speaker 1Dude, kevin man, did you guys win that game, dude? And they're like what the fuck dude? It makes them feel so good. And then it's one of the things I like doing at concerts. It's like I couldn't. Yeah, I don't do that, I just say what's up, man? Or like we, we hand out little fucking pieces of glow tape. I don't really do it much anymore, but I used to, and when you, when I would see somebody who has fucking glow tape, on their hat and I can light them up with my fucking light and they're like oh, dude, it's you Like fucking A.
Speaker 1I met you in Atlanta. It's like whoa, yeah, that's where you got it Crazy. Yeah, everyone's agreeing of Chris's great concert stories, right. Yeah, word, now it's our show. Chris's great concert stories, right.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1We're in Now. It's our show, top Shelf Story Boom Tune in every week. We're going to come out with some bangers once we get our shit lined up with the audio and there's going to be a lot of shit going on every single week. You're never going to miss us because you know what We've recorded ahead of time. Should I have said that?
Speaker 2Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1You can delete it. Perfect. See you later. Bitches at the show. Muffries McGee, was it? That's it, huffries.
Speaker 2Yep, you got it.
Speaker 1McGee's McGee Nailed it McGee, we'll be right back.
