Hello and welcome to... Hello and welcome to Music Monday. Should have been Sunday. Welcome to Music Monday.
Should have been... Should have been Sunday. Because that was Father's Day. And today's show is about Father's Day, but it's Monday.
It's Father's Day every day, so... Why can't today be Father's Day be music Monday? There's one day... There's one day when it's not Father's Day, and that's Mother's Day.
Oh my God. I know, it's hard to take... I find it hard to take Father's Day. Seriously.
Well, I had a seriously good Father's Day. You did have a nice Father's Day. I really did. Yeah.
I had just gotten back from tour the day before. And it was a weekend, so like Adele and I was going to be Adele and Izzy and myself. And that was going to be cool. I was ready for that.
But then Izzy went on impromptu play date, the middle of the day. And I took a shower, I did some manscaping. You did? You really like sof-duff?
Yeah, that must have been nice to be like... It's such a good way to decompress from a tour. We went to Upping Hill in Gil, Massachusetts and bought some... We're churning local...
It's like a 12-hour farm store stand. We got that. Shout out Up and Gil. That's going on in this part of Central Western Mass.
Yeah. We really do. And they have wonderful baked goods and some fresh things from their farm. Izzy and I got strawberries the other day because it's strawberry season here.
I'm ready to commit for a local commercial for Up and Gil. Oh. Well, I'm just shouting them out. It's not a full commercial, it's a shout out.
Okay. And we got some baked goods to bring to your dad for Father's Day. And like a spinach and cheese croissant, a garlic and cheese croissant. Turn out, turn out, imagine my dad eating a garlic, a soft cheese croissant.
I wonder if he did. Do you eat any of those? I bet he did. I bet he tried them.
It's not so... Oh, it's amazing. I don't know. A lot of dads.
A whole lot of dads. Dad. Dad. Dad.
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Dad. You've got a problem you can't be positive. Can't let it grow on its own. I've been thinking the ship You sink in the father decked it along Each time you try to find a way It takes more than what you make Moving further from the right On back of bullshit you act On distraction you run When you don't wanna move From the feeling stripped bare Not revealing the fear That is known with hide Each time you try to find a way It takes more than what you make Moving further from the right On the light Bored by the message repeated And man served so ways the same Don't take the things that aren't needed You don't wanna hear that They're born by the message repeated And man served so ways the same Don't take the things that aren't needed You don't wanna hear that again So go along the miserable then Man, that was more depressing than I did Happy Father's Day I did that this morning, I'm like that's cool It's a remake of a song that I did a long time ago That I wrote shortly after we got together And we did it as an electric version With Dale Crowe and Emad And we recorded the song on Father's Day What's that song called?
Father's Day Oh, okay, I didn't actually even know I'm like have I ever heard that song before? Maybe not, you've heard the electric version Yeah, but it's significantly different than that Totally, I probably heard it then But I don't have any memory of that That was like hearing it for the first time Weirdly for me too, I was like wait a minute I was actually hearing the context of it And feeling what it actually is It's totally like the song about being a dad Like the dad with the weight of the world on his shoulders The confused dad The 30 year old dad, the 40 year old dad I was like oh no, it started and then when it repeats at the end It repeats the chords, I'm like don't repeat that again Oh my god, this song is agonizing I left that one alone for a good reason I did want to put it in an electric context with Emad and Dale Because that has a way of changing the tenor at fifth But even then, even that electric version is so So, so just What a slog, such an emotional slog And I just hear so much I just, I understand why No one would like it or something, you know what I mean? Like why would I be like, oh it's really bad It's like a, I mean I love the recorded version with Dale In Emad on it, because Dale plays on it and everything he plays on sounds great And I got, I loved the session so much because it sounded so great Just instrumentally and then I just kind of like, and it really But it was, I wish I was able to say in Los Angeles Because I would have liked to continue to work with Dale in Emad Because I think as I brought different songs and that was our first shot At doing, you know, me writing a song for them and then us all proposing the music together I just thought if I could get, I do, I would have liked to see us play it so far You guys would have been a really cool trio Yeah, because I could have written more to the, to what the band was And how much potential I had and then if I was able to add songs that were more emotionally nuanced to it It probably would have been, it would have been really good And think about what they could have brought themselves You know we're all still alive, yeah, it's not the end, it's not the end That was the thing, like Emad had just become a dad, Dale's a dad with two kids that are Pretty much the same as my kids, my first two and And we recorded it on Father's Day I know and the name of your trio was Trace Padre We recorded it at the 606 Foo Fighters studio Like out with the board and the big room So, and all the Nirvana gold records on the wall and a big picture of Dave It's not available to buy anywhere, right? No, it was on my artist enabler series, The Joyful Noise, you know, I've admitted it but it's never been released But that what I did, well I played right there, I mean obviously I did that this morning It's based on the original acoustic version, but when I listened to the original acoustic version back I was like, I want to change that I want to change it, so I changed the lyrics a bit and I lowered it quite a bit Tone wise, I really like performing it, it was really fun this morning You were practicing it quite a bit Really good to start to my day because I felt really, I just love that, just sitting down and playing a song a bunch of times It was so nice, like having the morning kind of shuffle with getting ready for camp, per first day of camp today And just having you back home and seeing you in your little studio playing and singing It was just really nice, it made the house feel like a home again I feel like I'm really falling back into this quickly, like a home and I don't usually do this, but I like unpacked immediately Almost started doing laundry immediately, everything away, I was very impressed, yeah, usually it sits for the next time Sometimes you get home and you're just so sort of a spandter depleted that it's like you kind of need a few days You need some dead days, you can sort of make, you know, have the idea of them not being dead, but generally they become kind of dead And then I kind of find myself falling back into some routines at home that are sort of, you know, trying to break This time I felt like I just felt right back in from the tour kind of fully energized, so I don't know, I've got, you know, there's some, we've got a little bit of time before I go on tour again So I want to make the best of it, but I was allowed to play the song because I was like, oh this is when I was like really struggling to make the best of it I mean, the song for myself, the song for my own, you know, my own plate as a dad at that time, it was a hard time, it was a really difficult time That's the thing about parenthood, it never stays the same, right?
Just when you think you've got it down, it's gonna switch on, yeah So which, thank goodness, because the change, you need the change, you know? Yeah, and I think it was reminding me that I have changed. Yeah, you've changed a lot, I'm the last. I had this beautiful tour with my daughter, the oldest with, and it was like pretty magical, I have another set of eyes and some family eyes on it with me Yeah, almost a whole month together in Europe, incredible.
I love it, I love it, I've toured with my family, I have taken my mom on tour in my dad for that short bit, and when we take in the void And, you know, of course, Izzy, it's like, it just, it's traveling me so much more when I see it through family eyes, you know? Oh yeah, I mean, it's funny when we were just driving up through the hills of Gill yesterday, immediately I was reminded of us Kind of driving through the smaller towns and things like that, you know, when we've done your solo tours and how just lovely it is And how we have such a nice time and I'm thinking like, oh, I look forward to doing that again with you. Yeah, it'll be nice Well, we get a couple of weeks together and then Izzy and I take off for about a week and then we're home for about a week And then you take off on another tour of the full conclusion and we just got, now you're able to see the vinyl in person, your home, you get to see all the merch Unbox that stuff, I want to open up the box and I want to pull out a vinyl or I want to open the vinyl, I would like to play the vinyl Maybe starting on side two, okay, yeah, what's the beginning of side two? It's something called Fable and the fact side two is kind of an aggressive, it's the more aggressive side of the record, it's more like screaming guitar, a little bit A little pinch of screaming guitar.
Is that going to be one of our copies then so we can have a copy? There's like 300 on down there right now. Well, I know but they're going to sell out on the tour, so I've got to say one for us. We'll talk a few away.
Yeah, you should give one two to our niece Alexis and she's building her record collection. Well, right. Yeah, you and... You're going to take it out there with you?
Maybe I should, yeah, I could bring it out there to Wisconsin. That's a good idea. Yeah, disseminate product among your family. Yeah, well, and then we also got a couple of like dinosaur junior hats in the mail too while you were gone.
They were like, who socks hats? Oh, they're cute. Oh, we got those? Yeah, that's good.
I bought one for your dad and my dad. I know. That's sweet. But we got around now.
That's sweet. Speaking of Father's Day, you know what I did for my dad? What? There's this food service, food service, food company that I've been using the last few years online where they are some hub where they get restaurants or small businesses and they get their best of product and then they send them out to people.
Oh, like a subscription. Like a subscription. Oh, yeah. Oh, right.
It's totally cool. It's called Goldbelly. And I've ordered like Mother's Day donuts for my mom from there that say like Happy Mother's Day. I've ordered when Izzy and I were out in Wisconsin last November for our kind of like not Thanksgiving Thanksgiving.
I ordered a really nice carrot cake actually that was like duff. Anyway, you know what? I ordered my dad? Four burgers from a Gramercy Tavern to be delivered.
Wow. All over the country, kind of thing? Yeah. Well, these are just going to be four burgers from Gramercy Tavern.
Yeah. Oh, my God, Dad. Oh, Thank you for listening.