Welcome, there are impressions. Mondays, music, mini episode. Hello. Hi.
Hi. This, uh, you leave soon. Yeah, I do. I'm leaving on a dinosaur junior tour this week.
Um, shows are sort of based around these shows for the, where you've been, LP. It's exciting. It's like the 30th anniversary. Yeah.
Yeah. These big shows coming up. Been learning a lot of songs that I didn't know. You guys have been practicing a lot.
It's been kind of fun. Yeah. I was going to say, have you been enjoying that? I have been because I've been learning songs that I, you know, new, they're new to me, Jay songs.
Mm hmm. And you know, they're such a nice little ritual involved in learning a Jay song. I mean, Murph and Jay sitting in a room and just, you know, and I really, I do really enjoy Jay's melodies and I find them, you know, they, they, and I carry them with me. It's like, you know, when we do a new record, you know, we're always, we just focus on one song.
I like how those things just float around in my brain. It's nice. I wake up in the middle of the night. You guys have really been putting in the time.
That's great. That's great. So song commencing in five notes. Rubber duck, you got a copy on me, pick them.
Come on. Oh, yeah, then four pick them for sure. By galleys, clean, clear, black, down, come on. Yeah, that's a big import, everything.
Yeah, we can flick up the foot, go over, buddy. No, six, six, alive, looks like we got a confort. It's the dark of moon on the sixth of June and it can't worth pulling logs. I can't overbeat with the river on and it's in it all in halls.
We is heading for bear on I-1, oh, about a mile of shaky down. I said pick them this year as a rubber duck and I'm about to hammer down. Cause we got a little convoy, I'm doing the net. Yeah, we got a little convoy, a beautiful sight.
Come on and join our convoy, ain't nothing gonna get in our way. We're all this fucking convoy. I said, I'm going to the west side. I'm going to the west side.
I'll break up the emphasis. Anyone back off their homes? Yeah, import. Not about no, so.
Camera on your neck, all this evening, game, games up here. By the time we got into Tulsa town, we had eight five trucks and all. Things were a little block, on the corner, leaving them in bears with wall to wall. Yeah, I'm smoky, this thing has bugs on a bumper.
They even had a bear in the air. I said, cone, all tricks, this here's the door. We're about to go a hunting bear. Cause we got to make a convoy, looking through the net.
Yeah, we got to make a convoy, and see a beautiful sight. Come on, join our convoy, nothing gonna get in our way. We're all this fucking convoy across the USA. All right, we're gonna give you a 10-9 on now.
We're gonna go up interstate 44 with a rocket sled on rails. We tore up all our swivel sheets and let them set them on the scales. By the time we hit that shot town, then bears wasn't getting smart. They brought up some reinforcements from the Illinois National Guard.
There's armored cars and tanks and jeeps and wings of every size. The item chicken coops with full of bears and chubbers feel disguised. Yeah, we shot the line. We went for broke with a thousand screaming trucks.
And a lemon long haired grinder, Jesus and a chartreuse microbuds. We got to stop my script from over. Yeah, I'm gonna pull that microbuds so we have that swivel. I'm going down a mile, and it needs all the help we can get.
I'm gonna lay the strip for the Jersey Shore prepared across the line. I can see the bridge was lined with bears, but I didn't have a don't-gong time. I said, pick them in the seers and rubber duck. We just ain't gonna pay no toll.
So we crashed that gate doing 9 to 8. I said, let them truckers roll and forth. We got to make a convoy, looking through the net. Yeah, we got to make a convoy, and see a beautiful sight.
Come on, join our convoy, anything gonna get in our way. We got to roll this fucking convoy. It's a fucking convoy across the message. No other choice but to cover convoy after covering the streak.
There was no choice. There was no choice. I received the directive. And I had to go.
I was like, oh no, now I gotta do convoy. The streak was pretty complicated because it's got like the, you know, the newscast. This was even more complicated because you have a CB conversation. And the verse sung by the trucker, the duck.
And then the chorus. It's kind of a beautiful song. Oh, yeah, it's very catchy. It's very catchy.
Yeah, I love that song. It made me crazy. How old were you when you heard it? It was 1975, so I was nine.
Oh my gosh, like a little nine-year-old. Winter of 1975. And it hit number one on the pop charts. Oh yeah.
It was the number fucking one just like the streak. You bit with it. I mean, these songs, and these were songs written about kind of, you know, phenomenon, cultural, pop cultural phenomenon. And this was a CB culture.
People were fascinated. I was fascinated with CB radios and I wanted one so fucking bad. You know who had a CB radio? Mark Harris.
Mark Harris. Yeah. One on his fucking bicycle. Oh my gosh.
Oh, I wanted a CB radio and the song, the CB and the CB chatter. It was like you really wanted to know it because it's all filled with the real lingo. Well, right. And it's also such a curious little sneak peek, right?
You're kind of like spying on another embedded world, like the trucker world, you know? They've got their own lingo, all their things. Yeah. Yeah.
It's cool. I was looking up, what is a convoy? And it's just a group of vehicles, I guess. Like once you get a certain amount of vehicles, it's called a convoy.
Yeah. Like a military convoy. It's a group of vehicles, typically motor vehicles or ships traveling together for mutual support and protection. That's a convoy.
That's right. It's about semis. This is truckers protesting. This is kind of a pre, I have to say, a little bit of a pre, like a little taste for this song, sort of how to research it within the last year or two, like when that one.
Isn't there a trucker convoy? Yeah. They were like going around DC, beeping their horns. Oh my God.
Oh my God. I don't remember. What was that even about? Oh, come on.
Oh, I don't remember. There's so many things. It starts with T. Oh, G.
Oh, G. I'm like, you know, ordinary, quote unquote, ordinary people protesting, you know, and the song is about the truckers protesting a lot of the regulations. Oh, OK. I see.
And the 55 mile an hour speed limit and don't protest that. That's important. And also protesting, like how they had to log their hours and maybe want to do that. Oh, and stop for peas and things like that and take breaks and well, that's.
They don't want to be regulated. Honestly, that's so annoying because it's so typical American. Like you're not going to tell me what to do because again, in Europe, the truckers are totally regulated and it's much safer. It's true.
It does. I've been on a tour bus here in the US and been one in Europe. They don't drive through Montana. I mean, the spaces in this country are truly unprecedented.
It's so big that they're bored. They got a fly down the road. It's so fast. The roads here and so vast and like, you know, I kind of understand where the truckers are coming from on this song.
Just that they want to like go faster? I don't know. They just want to drive and drive. I'm not interested in the mother of Shakytown.
The song says Shakytown. You know what, they're Shakytown. We were a mile out of Shakytown. What's that?
Los Angeles. Oh, why are they called Shakytown? Why did they? I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I can understand that. But I do think that even though, yes, there's wide open spaces and they want to go faster, but it is unsafe.
I'm just worried about them. I don't want them to get hurt and hurt other people. They need to have breaks, but I'm not a trucker. So, you know, I don't know.
So I did it. I covered Convoi by C.W. McCall from 1975. Yeah, it's very catchy.
It's very catchy. And what else is happening? What else is happening? Yeah.
Well, I've been doing these Don't it to be a very compelling melody. It reminds me a lot of a real sort of Prime Neil Young Buffalo Springfield era. Oh, interesting. So I'd like to do, I'm just giving away, giving this away.
That's okay. I'm very tunnel visioned right now. It's all about music and learning these songs. And I'm also very, I'm thinking about Thanksgiving.
And I'm thinking about my tunnel vision is not about that. Where yours mine is like the holidays. And also my, I'm going to have like a home pop up shop thing at the end of November. So for just people local to come and shop my knits and things like that in person.
So I'm prepping for that, doing to-do lists, trying to think of what needs to get done. I just ordered a ham for Thanksgiving. So I'm in the holiday mesh and you're just getting ready to get on a plane and go immerse yourself in some deep dinosaur junior land for a while. Yeah.
We're in two different spots right now. Yeah. But I was on a convoy for the last two days. Yeah.
It's good song. I really wanted to get that CB chatter down. Do you think that there's truckers who aren't trumpers? Yes.
Yeah. Of course. But yeah, I mean they can't all be right. You know my heart just starts racing when the T word comes up.
Sorry, let's just, yeah. I just have like a- It's not talk about that thing. It's not be talked about. I mean I have a lot of respect for people who drive trucks.
I mean because also a lot of people that drive the buses that travel in. Exactly. I know you do. You know I have respect for their lifestyle.
I have respect for- It's a hard job. It's a really hard job. It's really hard on their bodies and they travel more than I do. It's like it's a very, but you know the thing that's interesting I think you notice now that like the who is driving trucks is changing.
Like for instance when we were at Joyful Noise Records we were right next to our trucking school. Yes. And I was seeing these groups of people walking around sort of I'll say diverse groups of people. Right.
Walking around the parking lot and I'm like why are they all walking together? Then I realized they were all learning to be truck drivers. And then when I see on the road too we stop it. We stop at truck stops when I get out of the bus we go into truck world.
Right. And to the trucker lounges and we are there. Yeah. You know with the semis.
I can say that things change just like they do everywhere. And just like so everything it's not is like I saw this one semi that was totally decorated like with Indian sort of traditional Asian Indian. Uh huh. You know just decorated with little flags and like little golden ornaments you know and you know an Indian guy got out of the cab.
And you're like yep it's you can't make any generalizations about people these days. Yeah. And I think with there's such a demand for truckers too because we obviously still really rely on trucks primarily to move the things that we take for granted. Okay.
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