Ep. 061: Piebald Roadie Life w/ Jon Cheese

Jon Cheese toured from 2002-2012 working for all kinds of bands as a tour manager/Merch guy. Piebald, cave in, my chemical romance, Apollo Sunshine, Limbeck, The Honorary Title, Meg & Dia, Big D & the Kids Table, Streetlight Manifesto, and The National. He did a weird T-Pain tour... and every Warped Tour from 2002-2011 (02/03 with Doghouse records and 04-11 with Side One Dummy Records. I got him on the phone and here's what we talked about: Why it's ok to not like some of the older punk bands The origins of the name Jon Cheese Possibly running Cave-in's Merch Finally remembering the name Aaron Kraft from many episodes ago My arch nemesis from high school The Morris County youth crew Meeting Piebald The My Chemical Romance story (this is fucking amazing) Jesse from Motion City Soundtrack's involvement in Jon's marriage Selling real estate to Fat Mike and other punk rock folks And a ton more Check out the new merch on the thiswasthescene.com If you'd like to support the podcast you can donate as little as $1 a month through Patreon by going to thiswasthescene.com and click on the button at the top of the page that says Click HERE FOR BONUS MATERIAL. As a Patron, you get access to bonus material that regular podcast subscribers do not.  OR you can do a one-time donation by clicking the DONATE button.