MIC Drop : Chris Collingwood becomes a family member

It was a songwriter circle thing they did at Turner hall.

And for an extra few dollars, you could be the pre-show meet and greet where they serve pizza and you got to hang out with people.

And I went down and did it because I like Everclear, I like Eve6, and I really like Phones of Wayne, and I wanted to meet those guys.

And as always, if I could do a little plug for Joey's song, I was going to do that.

So got out, they let us in, sound check had completed, and all the people came out, and I beelined for Chris because I get a little tenacious sometimes.

And Chris was the one I wanted to make sure that I left there knowing.

Well, given the time of year or the time that it was in the early 2010s, the election was heating up.

And we were at a point, so it was probably 2015, maybe 2016, when there was some uncertainty and some question for those on certain sides of the political spectrum of what was going on.

I did not know Chris, but I have found out since then that he's very politically astute and active.

And fortunately, he and I see things exactly the same way on a majority of issues.

So we literally spent the half hour that this meet and greet was where they're all supposed to be meeting leaning over the merch table at Turner Hall talking politics.

He was asking what the heck's going on with Wisconsin right now.

And literally the whole time and people would come up and he'd sign things.

He was obviously very polite to them and take pictures.

But we were really engrossed and engaged literally to the point where it was time to and the meet and greet.

And I hadn't even given him my Joey song pitch yet.

So, you know, they're grabbing him to go back.

And I said, Oh, by the way, I've got this little charity thing.

You know, I told him the story said really like for you to come.

And as they were kind of dragging him backstage, he gave me his email address, which I assumed was going to be fake, you know, because I do this with a lot of people and a lot of people say, Oh yeah, call me.

That sounds great.

And they have no intention of doing that.

Well, As I have found out, Chris had every intention of doing it.

So I got his email, sent him an email a couple days later, and he was all in.

But that's how Chris came in.