Episode 3 - Corey Smith

[00:00:00] Speaker A: This was for the home team. This was for the home team. [00:00:15] Speaker B: Welcome, tailgate Beers. We have the distinct pleasure today. Ryan and Austin here, as usual, we have a close family member. It feels like just to join us here at the table today and get the chance. He set out some time. He's playing tonight at cruisins, and it's mister Corey Smith. [00:00:35] Speaker A: Front pocket of my blue jeans. A little fire. [00:00:39] Speaker B: Thank you very much for joining us today. [00:00:42] Speaker A: Well, happy to be here. You know, it's like. It's great because we were just hanging in here. This is the green room, so we were all hanging around, and so it's like we get to sit down and chat, too. [00:00:50] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:00:51] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. [00:00:52] Speaker C: College football. Yeah. [00:00:55] Speaker A: Football going? Yeah, yeah. Fantastic. [00:00:58] Speaker B: So the weather's just starting to turn. As you said, football's going. We saw your team, the dogs, they played earlier today and got the big w. I'm a buckeye. [00:01:08] Speaker A: I'm a buckeye. [00:01:09] Speaker B: It does. It does. I know you were just in Cincinnati here recently, too, and. Yeah, no, I watched the Buckeyes. I'm from Illinois. I moved to Ohio for a few years, and I started watching the Buckeyes, and so probably don't even look at us as, like, not necessarily competition, but, like, a rivalry. Like Alabama is like a rivalry. That's. That's. [00:01:31] Speaker A: It's rare that we play each other. Yeah. So that's. That's certainly unique. And when we do play each other, it's gonna be really high stakes. So it's. I don't know if I would consider it a rivalry quite, quite yet, but it's certainly interesting because I. My family, my wife's side of the family has a lot of family from Ohio, so there's a lot of buckeyes there. Yeah. So that makes it kind of fun. Interesting. [00:01:56] Speaker C: How many times. How many games a year do you go to? [00:01:58] Speaker A: Well, I got to go to the Clemson game last week, which was awesome. Probably the only regular season game I'll get to go to. Let's see, what, if anything, changes with the calendar later in the year. But we have season tickets, so, like, today, my wife and kids were at the game, and. Yeah, it's cool. It's cool knowing they're there. Sometimes I could wish I could be there, but there'll be that, you know, there'll be a time somewhere on down the road we'll get to go to every game. Maybe. We'll see. [00:02:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:02:25] Speaker B: So, as you mentioned, you're a big family man, and wife and kids are at the game today. How do you balance all of that with being on the road and being an active dad husband? [00:02:38] Speaker A: It's a lot easier now than it used to be. Prior to Covid, it was nothing for us to do. 120 dates a year. 130 dates a year. Where Covid was sort of a reset for a lot of people, it certainly was for me. Plus, it kind of coincided with my kids getting older. My oldest one graduated high school. My youngest one is a senior in high school this year. So it's sort of like. It's kind of a reset, too, in terms of lifestyle. So these days, we do about 80. You know, hopefully we'll get to 90 dates maybe next year, you know, so it's. It's. It's not as hectic as it was, but it's. It's easier to manage it, and it allows me to focus a little bit more. [00:03:18] Speaker C: Was that a reset, as in, like, for you? If you're like, man, you know what? I haven't actually not toured in a while. Just because Covid happened, then you're, like, kind of slow starting it, getting back to it? Or is that. [00:03:29] Speaker A: I don't know. This probably like a. It's probably like a midlife crisis thing, you know, like, probably just getting to the point where it's like, I don't have to do things, so why am I doing things that I don't want to do? So it's sort of like, I want to go play shows that allow me to continue growing and continue doing this. I've been doing this for 20 years. And back in the day, when you get those big moments where you're in front of a label executive or something, they're like, tell me your goals. Where do you see yourself in ten years? And I would be like, shit, I hope I can just still do this. Like, this would be pretty sweet. Like, I'm traveling around the country. I get paid pretty well. I get to play music. You know, people come out. It's like, fun, you know, and it's sort of like, you know, be careful what you wish for. And on some way. Right? Because it's hard work. It requires, you know, it's a lot of a grind, but it's like, I love it. It's what. It's. When I look ahead, like, that's what I want to keep doing because it's what I'm best at, and I hope I'm at the point in my career where I can be a little bit more selective about how to go about it. [00:04:32] Speaker C: Yeah, that's a good position to be. [00:04:34] Speaker B: In any of your children into music or do anything musically? [00:04:39] Speaker A: Well, everybody's, like, been surrounded by music, so, yeah, both the kids love music, and they're, you know, my older one plays guitar, and he's actually really good at it. But he's in college at Georgia. He's a sophomore in Georgia, and so that's, like, when he's got downtime at his apartment, he's playing this guitar and stuff. That's cool. My younger one is actually. We're actually. He's doing, like, work based learning with school, so I have him working kind of as my assistant in the studio. Awesome. So he's. He's learning to help me down there, and he's working on some piano stuff, but he plays the drums a little bit. But, you know, I don't know that either one of them want to be, like, necessarily want to be musicians, which is cool. [00:05:24] Speaker B: Absolutely. They all kind of pave their own path. I've got a couple kids that same thing. [00:05:29] Speaker A: Well, you can be a musician without being. Doing it for a career. Most musicians don't do it for a career, and there's certainly nothing wrong with that. It's supposed to be about just something. It's a pastime. It's something that can you share it with other people, brings people together. It's always cool when there's somebody in the room that plays the guitar and can pick some stuff out. That's what it's all about. [00:05:50] Speaker C: What's been a big thing in the last year as far as, like, your career that you would say was a. Was a big moment or something, that you're like, hey, man, I've kind of. This is me energized again or something where you're like, still, I don't know, excited about or what's coming up that you kind of have excitement for. [00:06:07] Speaker A: The thing that I loved the most about music, like, the cause there's a lot to. There's a lot to touring from there's singing, there's playing guitar, there's the live performance aspect of it, and then there's the recording aspect of it. But ultimately, the. The songwriting aspect is. Is where it all started for me. And ultimately, I don't have a choice but to write. So coming out of COVID just kind of going, you know what? I'm going to write some songs. And I've never. At that time, I hadn't really written a lot with other people, so I went. I kind of dove head first into co writing with a lot of different people in Nashville. And that was sort of, that's what led to the record that came out in the fall. [00:06:48] Speaker C: So that was nude. The co writing was something that was. You hadn't entertained a ton. [00:06:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:53] Speaker B: You started writing songs, started playing music, started to love the music, ended up going to uga yourself, got a degree in education, became a teacher, and you were a teacher for a handful of years, social studies, teaching students, and then kind of got that bug again. [00:07:12] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, it never really, it never went away. I just sort of prioritized. Music wasn't the highest priority, being able to have a stable career for the family. And I loved education. Cause it was a way to kind of give back. And I'd had a lot of teachers that have made a huge difference in my life. So I, you know, I prioritized those things ahead of music, but I kept playing music just as a passion. You know, the cool thing about education is that that's all that's always there. You know, I like to think that it's a certain point in my life I can go back into that. That world. As long as I'm able to go out and. And perform and keep finding joy in this, I want to. I feel like that's the direction I'm supposed to go. Yeah. [00:07:55] Speaker B: And I've heard stories that you had some. Some students that would show up sometimes at your, your shows, and they'd sneak in the back and whatnot. That had to be a blast just to kind of look out in a crowd and see. [00:08:10] Speaker A: It'S like, oh, my God. God, like, this. This can't happen. Like, what are you. What are you doing here? Like, is that a. That. Surely that's not a beer and you're. Oh, no. [00:08:19] Speaker C: You were to go back and teach. Would you go back and do social studies? [00:08:22] Speaker A: Well, you know, I was. I was fortunate. In the four years that I taught school, I went from teaching, like, geography to world history. I had a guitar class and a philosophy class. So I loved the social studies. And in particular, my degree was in broadfield social studies. So it allowed me to pick a lot of areas of interest and kind of go at them. So I got to, like, I got to take classes in micro macroeconomics, money in banking, you know, studied the Renaissance. In reformation, I studied. I went to Europe and did, like, a study abroad on the philosophy of the enlightenment. So it's just, I took psychology and anthropology. So it's just a hodgepodge of all these different things that I feel like if, I don't know, as a writer, they've helped me out a lot. It's a lot of different ways of, you know, lenses to put on, to look at the world. [00:09:15] Speaker B: So from a music standpoint. So I know. I know you're a family member here at cruisings, and I played tailgate and Tallboys and hopefully get a. Get a chance to talk a little bit about that, too. But somebody coming tonight here at cruise in central Illinois, what can they expect to see at a Corey Smith show? [00:09:32] Speaker A: I hope they see something. Like a fingerprint, right? Like something they can. They're not gonna see anywhere else. People like, what makes such and such artists different? What makes an artist successful? It's like, who knows? I mean, ultimately, I think it's about. I think people can sense authenticity, and art is supposed to be a very, you know, it's supposed to be unique. Everybody's unique, and we all have unique experiences in the world, and we take them in. And as an artist, it's my job to. To mix those things up and express them somehow and hope that other people, you know, can receive the messages and it makes sense. And it should be unique like a fingerprint, because I'm unique, you know? So I hope that that's what comes through on the stage and through the records. It's something, you know, you got to be here to experience it. [00:10:21] Speaker C: Will you. Will you ever do another live album like your. What was it? Is it. Was it chatted? Was it Chattanooga? [00:10:27] Speaker A: Live in Chattanooga? I've done a few live albums. Yeah, I've done live stuff. [00:10:31] Speaker C: I love that album. [00:10:32] Speaker A: You know, what I'm excited about now is looking forward to whatever the next project will be is I look at it as a chance to make a studio record that feels more like a live record. I still think the big challenge is how to create a record that really captures what we do on stage most nights. You know, that is. That is spontaneous, and it's not, you know, all laid out to the grid and, like, you put your parts here and it's all nice. It's. I want to capture really great live performances in a studio environment for the next project. So kind of focused on that. [00:11:14] Speaker C: That'd be awesome. I just love live music. So yours was one that was. I mean, I'm a little bit younger than you, but, I mean, I was in. I was in high school when that kind of came out. So the whole 21, you know, song and all that stuff being live, I mean, the album, I just remember playing a lot. That was a good one. [00:11:31] Speaker A: Only. [00:11:31] Speaker C: Cause it's so real, because it's live and the crowd interaction and, yeah, it. [00:11:36] Speaker A: Was so cool working on the record after it was recorded because you could hear the energy in the mics and, you know, those live records, you know, sonically, they leave some stuff to be desired, but they capture the energy. You can hear. It's like, it's chaos and, yeah, it's cool. I think that I did one outtakes from the Georgia theater years and years ago, and we actually did two nights at the Georgia theater, and there was a truck there to get the audio, but at that point, man, I was so green, you know, like, I was still just nervous as shit every time I got on stage. And so out of the two nights, we were able to salvage, you know, a handful of songs that we ended up putting on that outtakes record. [00:12:25] Speaker C: I mean, be tough trying to capture and be happy as an artist, being like, yeah, yeah, just go ahead and cut all this, you know. [00:12:31] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Oh, that never would have passed. Everything. Yeah. The key to the live stuff now is always record them. You know, like, just always, like, approach it. To me, there's something about being in the studio when it's like, okay, you normally, you're recording to a click and it's like, once record gets pressed, everything, it's like, tense. Like, okay, gotta play it perfect now. And fuck that. That's a hard way to make. I don't want to do it that way anymore. It's like, I, you know, I agree. [00:12:57] Speaker C: It'd be hard. [00:12:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:58] Speaker B: So you mentioned you've been in the industry for 20 some years, over 20 years, and what have you seen changed, even from a social media perspective? I know you were on MySpace years ago and kind of went all the way through the spectrum of that. And now, I mean, we've had the chance to talk to a lot of younger folks, artists that are coming up and have that TikTok type of exposure. What has been your experience or your thoughts on today's industry? [00:13:29] Speaker A: There definitely was a pivotal shift in the early two thousands when I was just sort of getting started. You had itunes come along with the 99 cent single, and you had the limewire and Napster and you had the file sharing. And then in my space being, like, the social media hub, that kind of connected it. So there was definitely a transformation. And back in those days, I read this book called the Future of the music business, and it's a really short book, which are my favorite kind of books. [00:14:01] Speaker C: Big text. Yeah, lots of pictures. [00:14:04] Speaker A: But the dude, they're basically telling the future back then. They're like, look, the cd's dead, right? It's an overpriced piece of junk at this point. And, you know, it's on its way out. Eventually, people are going to pay music subscriptions. They're going to pay a music bill just like they pay a water bill or a power bill. And it's like, what? And they're like, in the future of music, there's going to be basically a middle class right now that for so long, the majors, not just the majors, but the system itself, it's like the access to the marketplace. Washington consumers had fewer choices. You know, there were fewer outlets there. So itunes sort of changed all that. Social media made it where people could go, like, discover shit on their own. MySpace certainly did. That's what helped me is I was putting music on MySpace, and just organically, it was getting millions of streams on there, so showing up on the charts. So when people search country music, they saw my name pop up right next to Kenny Chesney's, completely organic. You know, that's how I feel. [00:15:13] Speaker C: Like when I listen to people be like, oh, my gosh, these TikTok artists or whoever, and I'm like, you got found on YouTube. You know, you're not you, but, like, the person. I'm like, it was no different. YouTube was the same platform that you got found that way. And maybe before that, all the Internet, it was. Yeah, you were handing out cds and just so happened to know somebody and it got somebody. But either way, people are using their tool. And we've had this conversation with a couple people, you still gotta prove it. Whether you get found on TikTok, on the side of the road, something like that, it's just a way to get your stuff out there. But it's a flooding of information of artists every single day to catch somebody's attention because there's so much of it out there. [00:15:51] Speaker A: Yeah, I think that whether it's was, you know, MySpace or, you know, eventually, like, Facebook just came and annihilated MySpace, like, almost overnight or Instagram or YouTube or TikTok or whatever, those things are always gonna, they're always going to come and go, and they're going to be a way for new artists to get discovered. The trick is, though, they're still the old. The higher you, the faster you rise, the faster you fall or whatever. So it's like, how do you turn that into a long journey? Because being an artist is a long journey. It should be a lifelong journey. I've been very blessed that despite all these ebbs and flows, you know? Yeah. That, you know, I'm gonna be at cruisings on a Saturday night and have a room full of people and get to go up there with my friends and do something that we love. And, you know, I've had the privilege of doing now for, like, almost 20 years. So whatever the technology is, it's good. You know, let's figure out, you know, how to. How to keep it going. [00:16:53] Speaker C: Who are some artists out there right now? Because you and I have had this discussion last time you were here, and I know that you, you know, you have opinions of how the music industry is going no different than I have them, and we have different things. But what artists out there right now, do you see? They're like, man, this guy's. This person or a gal is doing it very right. And you're a fan of right now? [00:17:13] Speaker A: Well, I have a lot of music that I'm a fan of, and I kind of separate that from the, like, the business kind of bullshit, because when it comes to the business stuff and, like, Orlando, like, guessing what people are gonna dig, like, shit. Who knows? You know? [00:17:28] Speaker C: Who knows? [00:17:29] Speaker A: Yeah. So typically, I'll listen to stuff that my kids send me, and I'll be like, oh, that's cool. Like, my oldest one turned me on to this pony Bradshaw, who is from. I think he's from Mississippi, but he lives in north Georgia. Really been digging into that lately. And they also turned me on to that Stephen Wilson Junior. I've been really good digging some of that stuff a lot. I'm a big Jason Isbel fan. I like the Wood brothers a lot, but I go through these phases where I hardly listen to music at all. I've been in a big dead and company phase lately because it's so Jamie. I kind of like it now. Cause I don't have to sit there and dissect every little word. And I can just kind of. [00:18:13] Speaker C: Oh, the GMBN side of things. Yeah, okay. [00:18:15] Speaker A: Yeah. I started doing this thing in the house. I call it the dead spa. So I'll put on, like. I started listening, you know, with these dead and company live records. Yeah. I'll go sit in the pool or turn on the hot tub and, you know, make myself a cocktail or, you know, whatever, you know, and chill out and listen to, like, a whole live, you know, dead and company. And I even went back and I started listening to some of the old, old original Grateful Dead stuff, like, from the seventies and the Europe album. It's cool. I'm really. I'm all by myself and I'm sure my neighbors are like, what the fuck's going on? Over. [00:18:48] Speaker C: I don't even know if I've ever listened to him. [00:18:50] Speaker A: Oh, it's. Man, it's super chill. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's. [00:18:54] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, I know. [00:18:55] Speaker A: John Mayer's the. He's in it as well. [00:18:57] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Oh, oh, this is the. Yeah. John Mayer combination with them. I know. [00:19:05] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, it's cool. [00:19:08] Speaker C: That's some great. I mean, all those. Everyone that popped up was all pretty much live. Live in Boston. [00:19:14] Speaker A: I mean, those are really, like, what are you looking on YouTube? [00:19:18] Speaker C: I go straight to apple music. Okay, now, but for me, I use Pandora the most because I feel like I find the most variety of. They don't push me into a. If I, you know, did Corey Smith radio. I don't feel like they funnel me towards all these other, you know, things that they want me to listen to. I do feel like it is based on my true, you know, combination. And then I try Spotify. We have our tailgate and tallboys, you know, playlists and stuff, and I'll use it for some. But I just can never get into using Spotify to mix up music. [00:19:55] Speaker A: I've used Spotify probably more than Apple music, and I did do an ab in the studio, at the house and on a couple of different platforms. But Spotify sounds better. It just sounds better. It's got more bottom into it. It just comes out of the gate. [00:20:12] Speaker C: Sounded funny because I think that there's times that the volume is less on Spotify and volume and it's. It's. It's quieter now as far as bottom end. And diving into the sound, some of the newer apple ones that have their new, like, tones to it. [00:20:27] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:27] Speaker C: I thought have been better, but that was just me. [00:20:30] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess some of their. That. And now they're. They got the spatial audio features in the apple music. [00:20:36] Speaker C: I don't know. It's called. I don't know what it's called, but each song has, like, high res, lossless. [00:20:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:44] Speaker C: It's got all the different stuff on it. And Spotify does have one thing figured out, that when you're in another platform listening to music and you jump into Spotify, music shuts off. [00:20:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:20:55] Speaker C: I'm always like, man, some genius. Because they're like, no, no, you're not gonna be listening to Apple music and come into Spotify. Yeah, you're. It's gonna cut all the music off. But I still, to this day, I might be the only human in the world that does it? I still to this day will go and buy on iTunes the album or I'll buy vinyl. I've been trying to grow my vinyl collection because I have a huge cd collection. But I've been trying to get all the things I love. Everything from super hard rock. [00:21:21] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:22] Speaker C: Someday my kids are really. Dad has a vinyl of motionless and white right here. [00:21:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:26] Speaker C: To stuff that I used to listen to, you know, younger. [00:21:29] Speaker A: So you have a cd collection. And I just shit all over cds earlier and I was just like, well. [00:21:34] Speaker C: I have a cd because that's for my child. Yeah, my tapes. I was a tape and cd kid. I mean, I had still had all my cassette tapes. Then I went cds and then I lived in the Napster world and burned up three girl, you know, burned up my three for my ex girlfriend. [00:21:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:49] Speaker C: You know, in high school, I had. [00:21:51] Speaker A: This big cd book. I mean, it was massive, you know. [00:21:55] Speaker C: Like this, like the old DJ one that you like. [00:21:57] Speaker A: Yeah, like, I have to. Yeah. I mean, you know, to worry about people using their cell phones, driving like shit. Back then it was like, let me get a. Let me. Let me get a new cd to put in. [00:22:07] Speaker B: Whoop. [00:22:07] Speaker A: And you're flipping through, like almost. [00:22:09] Speaker C: I got a six cd changer, you know. [00:22:11] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Let me load this thing up. Like, way more dangerous. [00:22:15] Speaker B: The visor one up there. [00:22:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:18] Speaker C: Do you still have, like, a big collection of old, like, tapes or cds or vinyl or. [00:22:24] Speaker A: No, I've got a. I've got a bit of a vinyl collection, but frankly, I'm not. I'm not a very good collector of things. I'm. Yeah, I'm just. I'm doing okay at collecting guitars. I'm doing okay at that. But, you know, not my good at collecting. And in particular, the. My cds. [00:22:42] Speaker C: I don't collect them anymore. Don't get me wrong, I just have an entire tote sitting there like dad's cds. [00:22:48] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I. I've probably got a few. And every time I. I keep. I keep this. This. These old tapes from, like, back when I was in college where I had this four track recorder and I would, like, play with my guitar and stuff, record these old songs, you know, and I would just. I never could part with them, you know, it's like. And there's no telling what kind of gold is on these cassettes from back in the day when I was in. And, you know, eventually I'll break them out and, like, listen to them. Like, oh, my God, this is horrible. [00:23:19] Speaker C: Maybe I need to pick me up just. [00:23:21] Speaker A: Yeah, and not only is that, you know, it wasn't necessarily my best work, you know, but it sounded like shit. Like just the tape. Like tapes in general sounded like shit, you know, they taste. [00:23:30] Speaker C: We are spoiled with audio quality, what we have nowadays compared to what was. [00:23:36] Speaker B: So let's go back to tailgate and tallboys. As Austin mentioned earlier, you're a tailgate and tall boys alum. You were there. What was your experience like? How did you think. I mean, this is going to be a big topic for us here in upcoming months. [00:23:51] Speaker A: Yeah, that was a fun one. That was with Riley and jelly roll. That was a fun one. Got on. Got on stage with Riley and Jelly during Riley's set. It was cool because we had done a bunch of dates with Riley the previous year, and we hadn't seen him in a while, so we kind of got, you know, reunited there with him and all his guys. And then jelly roll was there. That was my second time hanging out with him. And then we ended up having the after party and hanging out on Riley's bus. And then I don't remember much after that, except you get up on stage. [00:24:28] Speaker C: And sing with jelly. [00:24:29] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it was awesome. Yeah, that was cool. Yeah, it was fun. Yeah, they were. Riley and Jelly were apparently, like, taking turns doing my old songs, you know, like doing the rap sections and stuff. And I. I was asleep. [00:24:49] Speaker C: I think I was nod. No, you were tired. It was a long day, right? [00:24:53] Speaker A: Man, I've never felt so old, you know, like, I used to be able to go so hard, you know, and, like, now it's. Yeah. Could not hang. Could not hang with them. It was fun, though. It was fun. [00:25:07] Speaker C: What. What things do. Are you a reader? Do you. What podcast. Do you listen to podcasts or anything like that, or. [00:25:12] Speaker A: Man, I don't. I don't much. And only time I listen to podcasts is when I'm on a long drive. I don't really. I don't. I'm not good with the technology and stuff, you know, I don't really. Yeah. Like, everybody in my circle of friends and family, you know, they primarily use, you know, Instagram, Facebook, whatever, Snapchat or whatever to communicate with their. Their friends and family, you know, and I've never been able to use it that way because it's always. Even from back in the day, my first MySpace page, it was always something that was my art, a place for my art to get out there. [00:25:50] Speaker C: Still waiting for people to add. You on MySpace? [00:25:51] Speaker A: Yeah, no one's following me. I'm still posting all my shit on MySpace. I'm wondering why nobody knows what's going. [00:25:58] Speaker C: Bring carrier pigeons with you everywhere. [00:26:01] Speaker B: It's Corey and Tom still on MySpace. Corey and Tom, yeah. [00:26:05] Speaker A: When did you have a new record come out? When you didn't see. I put it on MySpace. No one knows anything anymore. [00:26:11] Speaker C: Million dollar ideas. I mean, maybe we bring back MySpace and try to make it cool again. Yeah, I've said it forever that I think it'd be awesome if MySpace made a comeback. [00:26:20] Speaker A: Man, I thought it was cool as shit. You know, when it started, it was, uh. It was real simple. Yeah, yeah. And I was like, yeah, it took me on a ride. It took me on a serious ride. It's still kind of going on. [00:26:35] Speaker B: Austin would be like my. My 365th friend on my. On my stack of friends. Like, Austin. [00:26:42] Speaker C: Oh, my gosh. Yeah, you should just keep posting all the videos. And I think I had, like, is it still there? I don't know. I thought somebody. [00:26:50] Speaker A: Somebody check and see if I have them on MySpace page. [00:26:52] Speaker C: I thought somebody said that, like, Justin Timberlake at one point, my space. But I don't know. That could be a rumor. I did look it up and think it'd be cool to bring it back. [00:27:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:02] Speaker C: But it probably just can be us three as friends and Tom. [00:27:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. You think Tom's still. [00:27:08] Speaker C: He's still sitting there waiting, guaranteed, at that desk. [00:27:11] Speaker B: I know that you've got the show tonight, and we don't want to keep you any longer. I know my buddy Austin here has got at least one more question. He always. He always. [00:27:19] Speaker C: Yeah, go ahead. But you're jumping out of an airplane. You're getting ready to spend the rest of your life on a deserted island. What five albums are you gonna listen to the rest of your life? You can't take anything else with you. [00:27:34] Speaker A: Five albums. Okay. There's a. There's a George Jones gospel album. I can't remember what. It's just like, George Jones Gospel. Whatever that album is, I can't remember. That one's definitely on there. [00:27:46] Speaker C: That one. [00:27:46] Speaker A: That one's gotta go, but, yeah, yeah, I'm probably gonna go. Eric clapped and unplugged to get that one. I got three more, right? Yeah, I'm gonna go. Wow. [00:28:03] Speaker C: It's a tough one. Do you go variety? Do you listen to the same stuff all the time? [00:28:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm gonna try to mix it up a little bit. I'm probably gonna have to go with some John Mayer. Can I do a really long, like, what if it's a two part album? Does that count as one album or does. [00:28:22] Speaker C: So I can do this. [00:28:24] Speaker A: I could do, like, John Mayer, like, where the light is album. And that's two parts. So that counts as one album. Yeah. Okay, great. [00:28:31] Speaker C: How do you not go John Mayer live in Los Angeles? Yeah, it's where the light is. [00:28:38] Speaker A: That is. Yeah, yeah. That's. That's got to go on there. [00:28:42] Speaker C: Okay. [00:28:43] Speaker A: So we got the George Jones. We got the John Mayer. The Eric Clapton unplugged. All right. Now I gotta. Now it's getting tough. [00:28:53] Speaker C: Yeah, you're. We have the same John Mayer. I'm sorry. You were right. Where the light is is one of my top five because it's the only one where it plays in your atmosphere. The only time that songs ever been played. [00:29:03] Speaker A: Yep. [00:29:03] Speaker C: One of the. Probably the best John Mayer songs out there. Love that one. [00:29:06] Speaker A: And I love the version of good loves on the way. That's on there. Yes. [00:29:11] Speaker C: That's a great album. [00:29:12] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. I mean, I could just. I could probably round it out with that. With John Mayer albums, but I'm not. [00:29:19] Speaker C: Going to because I'm throwing away that. That's on your top five. [00:29:22] Speaker A: No, I'm trying to think of something like this just essentially, because there's a whole lot of. There's a whole lot of good stuff. [00:29:37] Speaker C: So for me, I started realizing that. I started. That's where I found my obsession with live albums, is when I did this, every one that came to mind that I wanted. I realized that I was a nineties kid and that I loved live albums because I had three of my top five or live. [00:29:54] Speaker A: I'm gonna go something jazz, so that I have something that's nothing lyrically based and improvisational. It's just a matter of how far. How far out there, you know? Don't necessarily need to be like giants. [00:30:08] Speaker C: Like a Yanni album. [00:30:09] Speaker A: I'm just thinking more like a. Like a Miles Davis kind of blue. I'm kind of torn between that or like a. Like a Coltrane, like giant steps. But I'm gonna go kind of blue. I'm gonna go that one on there so that I got that thing there. [00:30:23] Speaker C: What are you gonna round it out with? What's gonna be the. [00:30:25] Speaker A: I feel like. Need something that's got some. [00:30:27] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. You got to have a real come. You got a John Mayer album out there. It's got a little upbeat, but, you know, then you got. [00:30:35] Speaker A: Your gospel needs something with some. Oh, fuck. Now it's getting. [00:30:40] Speaker B: Light came on. [00:30:42] Speaker A: I'm a man. I fucked up because now I got to choose between the Almond brothers or Skynyrd. Like, I fucked up. I should have left two spots in there, man. I'm gonna go. There's a Leonard Skynyrd album. It's two cds. I think it was, like, platinum and gold. Like, Skinner's like, greatest hits. Okay, I'd have to go with that one. And now I might reconsider my Miles Davis and add some almond brothers. But I hope this eats at you. [00:31:13] Speaker C: For a while, because now you're thinking about what, honey? What if I actually jump out of plane and I have to take these albums with me? [00:31:18] Speaker A: And where the fuck is the record player gonna be? [00:31:20] Speaker C: We haven't figured that part out. [00:31:21] Speaker A: I mean, are we talking about. And if I've got this, like, why do I need. What are we talking about? I can have all music ever made, you know, since the beginning of time. [00:31:32] Speaker C: Okay, you're jumping on a plane, and you're gonna be able to play these five things. It's gonna be the old record player that has, like, the speaker, like the. What is it, the trumpet looking thing, right? [00:31:41] Speaker A: Yeah. That shit's gonna get ruined in no time. Oh, yeah. All the salt. All the salt water. This is a pointless exercise. [00:31:51] Speaker C: Mine ended up being like Oasis live at Wembley, counting crows live in New Amsterdam. I did John Mayer live in Los Angeles. From there, I went with, like, a Brooks and Dunn. I did greatest hits only because, I mean, it is an album, but I had a Brooks and Dunn. And then my fifth one always gets really tough, but I would end up going with, like, a yemenite, newer age, like the band Camino or that one kind of bounces around a little bit. [00:32:22] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:22] Speaker C: But that's where I kind of. Then the fifth album, you're always like. But then there's this one and there's this album. So, yeah, it's a fun conversation, but, man, we appreciate you doing this and appreciate you being back here and taking the time to hang out with us, man. [00:32:37] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:32:37] Speaker C: Appreciate you so much, man. Good luck tonight. And my beers empty otherwise. I cheers you. [00:32:42] Speaker B: But cheers to looking forward to see you tonight. Thank you again for taking the time. Thanks your team, for carving out some time with you today. So thank you. [00:32:52] Speaker A: My pleasure. Thank you.