The Band

Eric Clapton shows up and tells this story finally.

He loved the band.

He flies over and offers to join the band, and you turned him down.

No.

What happened was he didn't end up working up the nerve to ask to join.

And I didn't know about this.

And he's been a friend of mine since 1968.

I didn't know about this until he inducted the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

They've just discovered their manager has run their finances into the ground, leaving them buried in debt.

They're facing a drug bust down in New Orleans that could put members of the band in prison.

Altamont.

The disaster that closed the doors on the 60's dream is only weeks in the rear view.

It became their best-selling record up to that point, climbing to number 27 on the Billboard 200.

Rolling Stone readers voted it the best album of the year, ahead of Deja Vu and Moon Dance.

Produced by Bob Matthews, Betty Cantor, and the band themselves, it's the sound of the Grateful Dead coming down to Earth.

So pour some coffee, lace up your boots, and let's join the working man's dead.

Do you do a whole show, or is it-

The Band is there, um, OMD, uh, all the, every '80s band.

It's an '80s thing.

So it's kind of cool.

We rehearsed.

How fun.

They rehearsed all this stuff, you know, and we went over to the house where they rehearse and, and played with the band.

It was, it was pretty fun.

If you're not familiar with the Horns tour, you're not a Phish fan, get on it.

But Carl was awesome and shared those experiences traveling with the band, and we talked about this particular show, and what a lot of fun, man.

What a great guy, and just so cool to hear those stories of, of his time playing with Phish, and just a, just a character all around.

Yeah, I could listen to those stories all day, man.

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And then have you kind of, because of some of the music you're listening to in the jam scene, you know, there's a, there's a lot of respect in the jam scene for, like, the, the '60s and '70s origins of rock and roll, right? Covers that get brought out, Rolling Stones, The Who, all, all...

Have covers that the bands you like, that they play, has that given you kind of a, a, another avenue to pursue? Like, "Oh, this is a Talking Heads song.

Let me go and check out, you know, Remain in Light," or, um, you know, you get kind of a, an indication from that, and then that kind of branches out into learning something else.