112: Burn Something Down To Create It (with the Queen of the Spinners)

Uh, so yeah, I am in Las Vegas now.

I spent many years, uh, 13, I think, in Los Angeles, which is a terrible place if you wanna see a lot of jam bands.

And so, a lot of those years, I didn't see a lot of jam bands.

Uh, I was performing stand-up comedy, and working a variety of jobs, and dating a ton, and, uh, yeah, just basically being there for my entire 30s, and had some great times, had some hard times.

But my buddy, my good friend, who actually officiated my wedding, Alex, uh, he ran a great comedy show called Crave, and he would put together these shows, and it was a comedy and rave.

So it was the only comedy show that I did.

I think I did the first one of his Craves, and it's followed by an, an actual rave with DJs and everything, the whole, in a, in a, in like a warehouse-type situation.

Originally, it was, like, in Culver City.

Man, we all took drugs and stayed up all night.

And, and then I performed a few other times.

Uh, I would do bits.

You know, he'd, he'd bring me on to do sketches and stuff for the show.

These were quite elaborate productions.

Um, so with themes and everything, and so I would, I would contribute over the years, uh, at these incredible shows with amazing just guests.

Uh, not only getting to see them perform, but then fucking taking molly, dancing all night with them, and having fun talks and stuff like that.

So that was pretty cool.

I wanna say it was at the, one of the first Craves that featured, where Alex booked a act, it was a band from Long Beach, California, and their name is Fartbarf, which, r- I mean, holy shit.

So Fartbarf, I was like, I-I, y- I don't think a band has ever named themselves a name that immediately set the bar [chuckles] so low f-for them being good.

Like, you expect the band Fartbarf to, like, pr- pretty much blow, I think, right? I mean, that's what I was kinda going in with.

Like, their name is Fartbarf? Like, okay, sure.

Like, what am I getting into here? Like, they're just gonna be a bunch of fucking clowns.

And then they ended up being fucking awesome.

Like, not j- just for a band named Fartbarf, I mean, though they were exceptional for a band named Fartbarf.

They were act- actually really good just for, for a band, uh, in general.

They, uh, are a three-piece band.