Hello and welcome to Tiny Tins Tis D. The musical subsidiary of your favorite podcast, Ron Precious. Raw Impressions Podcast. Live from Amsterdam, Netherlands and?
Greenfield, Massachusetts. Yeah, Western Mass. Ass. Western Mass.
This ass is solidly in Western Mass. Oh god, look at my... Holy shit. Wow, wow.
There's some meaty sweats tains. Oh, wow. Oh my. Do you have deodorant out there?
Viewers at home. Check that out. Oh my. Wow.
Yeah. I'm on tour, I'm wearing the same t-shirt. Well, this one, I've been wearing this one for two days. Wow.
I'm sweating. I'm sweating. Is it warm there? Not really.
Not really. I was learning a song for the podcast. Oh, so you were sweating. I'm working.
It makes me sweat a little bit. I'm a little nervous. I know, I'm wearing a black t-shirt, so you can't probably see my sweat stains. And I'm also wearing my natural deodorant today, since it's just a home day, you know?
So I tend to go own natural with the deodorant versus the anti-purse print. That's reserved for more like social events and flights. Yeah, that's, you know, you might as well just not wear the aluminum, not seal your pits with aluminum every time. That's, yeah, I'm trying to strike a balance.
That's right. Yeah, you know, balance. That's a hot word, right? I'm always trying to find balance.
So hot. So hot. Oh, yeah. That's balance, baby.
You and me. So, I'm here with the oldest child. She is here, she calls Amsterdam, Dampster Cramp. We took a boat ride, the first thing we did when we landed in Amsterdam, we got to the hotel, we went right across the street, hopped on a big boat, we went through the canals, and her impression was it was Dampster Cramp, because it's Damp.
It's Damp. And the buildings were all crammed together. She loved it. She had the, her first impression, her first raw impression was, I want to live here, which was my impression.
When I came here, when I came to Holland for the first time, I was like, can I just live here? Yeah, just take me. Can I just stay here? Yeah.
Totally. I completely get it. And I love that she had that reaction so much. It really is a testament to how I think warm and welcoming, it feels there.
You don't feel like I don't belong or I can't be here. You immediately are like, I could figure this out. And I could do this. And it doesn't feel too chaotic to me.
I'll say that. I remember when we were, we've traveled a lot together in Europe, and some places are just too chaotic for me, where I feel like, and Amsterdam can be really busy because there are literally hundreds and hundreds of people on bicycles flying past you. But it felt like that made sense. It didn't feel like not orderly.
That's right. If you understand that they ruled the road, and this is actually a really positive thing to be having people primarily traveling by bike versus by cars, which below their shit out their asses, you can figure it out and move around and get to see just what a lovely place it is. Everyone follows the rules, but they follow the lights. They're not Jay walking.
They're not walking out. They're all kind of following the lights. Green man, red man, green bicycle, red bicycle. You know, they follow the lights.
So if you follow the rules, you'll be OK. Just follow the rules. I have to ask you, when you first came to Amsterdam, you said you were, you told me earlier that you were 22 and you were on to earth, dinosaur junior. And it was your first time to Amsterdam, right?
Oh, yeah. First time out of the country, first second time on an airplane. Wow. What was your impression then?
What was it like? And you're frozen and you look like you're praying. Hmm. You were frozen.
You were frozen too. I'm OK. Yeah, did you hear what I said? I asked you what your impression was of Amsterdam when you were 22.
Well, we were. I was very impressed that you could get marijuana here or hashish. I was impressed that they were like porn theaters everywhere, like little places where they showed porn. Crazy, crazy porn everywhere.
Not really like porn, like just weird, weird stuff. Weird, weird. Oh boy. As a band, as a band, as the three of us in our travel and our ends, we all went to like an adult place.
And we sat in a strange room, sat on a bench and watched. We watched unspeakable things and not sexy. Not sexy. You weren't like, oh, give me your pass.
You were like, yeah, I'm good. Let me say that. And then move on. Wait, wait, you froze again.
So what did you just say? You said it was not sexy. Did you say something after that? I said animals.
Oh, OK. And VCs. OK. Oh my god.
Whoa. Dude, that was a band bonding experience. It was a band. Have you touched base with Marvin Jay about that?
Hey, guys, do you remember me or 22? And we all went to. Woo. That was awesome.
Has that haunted you as long as it haunted me? I don't need to have you. Have you worked that out on therapy yet? Are we OK?
Oh, OK. It was the fuck. The fuck? So he said you walked down like, fuck.
I don't know. I don't know. You're like, OK, dude, do we? Oh, that's sort of like, yeah.
I don't even know what that's like. Oh my god. Wow. We never did it again.
I bet. Together. Anyway, OK. Sure.
Oh my god. You guys didn't like break it down afterward with the ends and go like, what did you think of that part? No. I think we went to the red light district.
We got cruised out a little bit. Just to see. Just to see. We went to Hamburg in a century.
But also it was pretty hardcore. What? It was hardcore. Yes, Hamburg.
The Reaper Bond was also hardcore. The fascinating thing about it was that it was all this kind of normal there. It was like, yeah. Oh my gosh.
That's what you want. There it is. I love that though about Europe. I love that though, as an American.
I love that shock. I love that shaking up of our pure, tanical snow globe that we may or may not even know we live in. You know, we're like, I'm cool. I am so liberal and wild.
And then you get to Europe and you're like, oh, oh, OK. I mean, I am. I'm open-minded and liberal. But these people are way more honestly chill about so many things.
And OK. OK. I mean, I think that it's I'm not saying that it's like it's wild and chaotic. That's not what I'm saying.
They are not burdened by this puritanical life, right? That we actually was like the root of whatever. We all know you're Americans. And the foreigners who are listening are just laughing and going like, yeah.
My ancestors were the Prudence. I know. Right. And it was a priest.
He got a bunch of people in a boat. And they left England and went to America in the early 1600s. And their last name was Prudence. Prudence.
I know. Now last week, I mentioned that I wanted to write a song called Dick About It. Yes, you very passionately shared that. Yeah.
Well, turns out there's already a song called You Don't Have To Be a Dick About It. And I've heard it. And I heard it back in 1989 or so. And I heard it once.
And it burned itself in my memory. And apparently, it just sank so deep in my memory that I'd somehow made it my own somehow. Somehow. Mm-hmm.
And I realized it was recorded by a band called Masters of the Obvious. Moto. And they actually- Great damn names. Yeah, Masters of the Obvious.
And I really got to set something right quickly. I can't hear. OK. Because they're kind of a real punk band.
Kind of raw lyrics. They have a lot of raw lyrics. And the leader of the band currently resides in New Hampshire. Oh.
And I feel like I got to put this right, get it out of the way, and play a cover of the song. And interestingly, it kind of fits in with what we're talking about. This is the actual Dick About It. This is the actual Dick About It.
OK. I'm excited. Great. You don't have to be a dick about it, dick about it, dick about it, you don't have to be a dick about it, dick about it, dick about it.
Like I do that, I think you'll kill. Yeah. I can't get at the point or no one. Oh, bow priest and a perv, oh I can't suck the sewage like you can.
And you don't have to be a dick about it, dick about it, dick about it. You don't have to be a dick about dick about dick about it I wanna scrape you off my shoe I wanna flush you down the toilet bar Oh you're so sure you're best to rain Mr. Brain I wanna dump you like a load Recon boat, you don't have to be a dick about dick about dick about it You don't have to be a dick about dick about dick about it Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Look at those dick hands all around You're just another in the Girl, oh man, cry that's if you can Baby, I'm your biggest fan But you don't have to be a dick about it Dick about it, dick about it You don't have to be a dick about it Dick about it, dick about it You don't have to be a dick