WEBVTT - QLS Classic: "Weird" Al Yankovic 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:00.720 Of Course. 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:04.720 Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. This classic episode 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:09.640 was produced by the team at Pandora. Hey, Hey, what's up. 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:12.720 This is QLs classic April fourth, twenty eighteen with the 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:14.360 Great Matthew Alfred. 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:15.600 Yankovin that's right, y'all. 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:16.640 Weird Al Yankee Vic. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:19.279 Joins us and he talks about hilarious songs that Prince 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.880 would never clear, why he turned down the opening slot 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:26.239 on Michael Jackson's nineteen eighty eight bad Tour, and how 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.400 he got away with poking fun at Kurt Copaine, Cooglio 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:31.720 and Azalea and many more. 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:32.680 Not to mention. 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:38.120 I gotta say this roll call intro is. 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.600 One for the record books. Hope you enjoyed QLs with 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:52.600 Weird Al Yandy Vick. All Right, yah ready, yeah, you 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.120 yelling already like you. Let's go. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:02.680 Sub cram well sun Subpremo. Oh called Suprema Son, So 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:10.679 supreme role called Supreme Son Son, Supremo role called Suprema Son, 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:18.480 Suprema Roll call, rewind select the three right, come back 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:20.280 again select Yeah, I want to do. 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.440 We are in the greatness of of of of greatness 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.920 right now, gentlemen, Yes, we are in the greatest of greatness. 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:31.240 We are we are in the yo. We are remixing 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.280 this role call. Thank you very much. 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:49.560 Supremo Supremo, Ro Supreme, Supreme roll call, Supreme Supreme, roll call, 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.560 Supreme Supreme. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.840 Yes to all of y'all. 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Yeah, it 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.600 wouldn't be better if this won't reheart. 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:25.560 Pray, pray pray sho. That was He was like, they're 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:30.920 going to beat your ass. Is that you all playing? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.640 yeah that was last minute, like zero o'clock in the morning. 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:36.919 That was shout out to the school. 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:38.520 Yes, the first time we've done that out. 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:41.279 We've never changed the music up before. 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.240 First pokemonsh up, Yeah, we had to. 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:48.720 We're in the greatness of greatness, ladies and gentlemen. What 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:53.039 more can I say? We have one of the greatest. 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.640 I mean, he shut down his own category. He is 0:04:57.720 --> 0:04:59.560 a one of one. There. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:01.119 The job is taken. 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:14.640 It's just like, you know, you are the greatest parody satire, right, satirist, Yes, satirist. Yeah, 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:17.480 you are the goat. 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.279 Thank you man, you are the goat. You're the goat. 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.600 As well, thank you. I feel goadus pleasy, gentleman. Please 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:32.680 welcome Alfred Matthew yank wow go, I have to use it. 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:34.760 My social Security numbers five six, n. 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.760 Man one. I'm grateful that you did this. I'm thankful 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:46.680 because you know, we've all been fan of yours. But 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:48.920 I mean, it's to the point that you're not even 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.680 a proper nown. You're a verb. 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.560 You're i mean, like a weird out of the song. Yeah, oh, 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.760 you're weird about that song exactly exactly. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.640 How are you though, place for asking? 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.000 Doing very well? I just just got back from uh, 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:03.880 Hawaii last night. 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:04.400 We were there. 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:06.760 We lived there part time, and I'm just kind of 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:10.680 getting used to uh uh not seeing the ocean and 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.240 flowers and beautiful things all the time. 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:14.000 Thanks. 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:24.800 We live in the east side. Hey, we live out 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.160 in the jungle. We're about another half a mile down 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.800 the road and we there's like no internet, no nothing. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:35.440 We're in the jungle, baby really yeah, why because it's 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:36.840 a whole different kind of Hawaii. Mean, you can go 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:38.200 to the west side and there's like, you know, you 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.120 can have your drinks by the pool and it's very 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.479 res already and very nice. But but the East Side 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.560 is like old Hawaii and it just feels like, you know, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.560 you can really kind of it's a place where you 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:47.920 go and do nothing. A lot of people like go 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.440 to to Hanna and they go, oh, there's nothing here. 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.800 That's kind of the point. It's like a great place 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:53.360 to unplug. 0:06:53.760 --> 0:07:00.000 So you needed to uh sort of recharge and and yeah. 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.720 Yeah, it's a it's a whole. It's kind of like 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.760 the opposite of l A. So a couple of times 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.640 a year my family goes out there and just kind 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.640 of unplugs and you know, talk, talk to the cows, 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:10.440 you know, hang out. 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:15.520 No, you just scared me with no Internet. Yeah, get 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.080 you away from Instagram? Why would you ever want to 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.160 do that? But I understand it's necessary. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:25.440 Where are you from from Linwood? Straight o Linwood? Yeah. 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.360 In fact, Shiat Knight went to my high school. 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:33.920 What wow wait wait wait wait, sarcasm detectors right. 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:35.080 Now, that's absolutely true. 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:35.720 Wow Okay. 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.760 Fred Winn from The Monsters, Mark Spitz, I believe, and 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:41.800 Kevin Costner also went to the same time. 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:53.000 Wow wow. Uh So, first of all, what were you 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.840 like as a kid? And I asked that very slowly 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.720 because I don't think people are yeah accurate in describing themselves. 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.960 But I mean, well, this might come as a huge 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:10.160 shock to you, but I was a little nerdy really, No, No, 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.480 I was. I was definitely well, I was sort of 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.160 a you know, sort of a weird kid, I was. 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.040 But I was always a good student. I was always 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.680 a straight a student, the kind of guy that you 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.200 try to copy off of during math class and then 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:22.119 beat up at recess. 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.440 But you know, because you try to, you gave the 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:25.720 wrong answers anywhere. 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.480 Just mess with them. But no, I was always a 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.520 good kid, but I was always a little strange. I 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.800 kind of kept to myself and and ate with the 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.160 other nerdy kids during lunchtime, that kind of thing. 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:45.640 Okay, basically yeah, yeah, this room read backstory. So your 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.400 your gift of music? How did that start? 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:52.280 Like, well, I guess it started when my parents decided 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:53.680 I should take accordion lessons. 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:58.040 Uh why, well they could. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.199 Well, I think you know, the joke answer is that 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.200 they realized that according music was going to take over 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:09.319 Western civilization. But really I think they honestly thought that 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.560 it would make me more popular, because you know, when 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.520 you play the accordion, you're a one man band, you're 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:16.880 the life of any party. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.880 Yeah, you know something though, they were right. 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:24.280 In their own weird way. 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.839 I mean, there's no one in this world that does 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:27.880 not know who you are. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.160 So it's like it was actually kind of a stroke 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.400 of luck that they decided on such a dorky instrument. 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:37.679 Because Doctor Demento the Distract really started my career. He 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.680 says that. You know, when he got my first tape 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.959 in the mail, he said, if it was some teenage 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.120 kid playing the guitar and doing those same songs, he 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:46.960 wouldn't have given it a second thought. But because there 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.600 was this teenage kid playing the accordion and somehow thinking 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.200 he was cool, he said, well, that's the novelty. That's 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:54.480 worth the maritime Wow. 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.559 So can you write down for us how the accordion works, 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.199 like as an instrument, like how like physically? Weeks Yeah, 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.760 how physically works and how you read the music? Does 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.040 it is like a piano or the right hand. 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.240 Part is like a piano. It's talking about piano acordions. 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.120 They're different kind of accordions, but that's the one I use. 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.600 So the right hand part is exactly like a piano 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:16.160 and the left hand part is buttons. Their accordions have 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.280 different numbers of buttons. One twenty is like the standard one. 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.360 The top two rows are basses and all the rest 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.600 are chords. Like the next row of chords is major chords, 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.520 then minor chords and seventh chords and then diminished chords. 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:30.839 And there's a lot of repeat buttons because you don't 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:32.480 want to have to like do one button on one 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.160 side of the accordion then immediately go. 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:34.400 You know. 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.360 So it's just, you know, looking back on it, it's 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:42.280 kind of a hard instrument to learn. And I figured 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.920 out because I gave my daughter accordion lessons a few 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.320 years ago. She out of the blues, decided she wanted 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.319 to play the accordion, which you know, I have to 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.240 say that so they don't send me to send it 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:52.439 to child Protective Services. 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:53.520 She actually asked. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.400 And we got her a little accordion, and I taught 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.160 her some Christmas songs and she lost interests after couple 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:01.800 of months. But but she actually, you know, can play 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:02.320 a few songs. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:06.880 This is there a left handed according for those that 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.080 whose lead hand is their left. 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:10.920 You mean to play like the keys on the left hand. 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.840 That's a really good question. I don't know. I mean, 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.080 and maybe you could play it upside down. I've never 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.120 seen that done though. That's I have no idea. I 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:19.439 don't know. 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:23.040 Are you related to now? There was a clip when 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.679 you first came to the Tonight Show to sit in 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:30.280 with us, and we did this extended polka jam and 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.000 it was based on a Yankovic. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:34.959 Who was Franky Yankovic. 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:36.319 Yeah, are you related to him? Not? 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.720 Not as far as I can figure. I mean, maybe 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.000 several generations ago. I'm sure we're all We're ALLTD somehow, 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.840 but no direct relation. But that might have been another 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.640 reason why my parents decided I should take take according lessons, 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:51.480 because there was already America's polka King, Frankie Yankovic, and 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.200 they thought, oh, there should be at least one more 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:59.719 accordion playing Yankovic in the world. I actually I met 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.839 Frankie passed away some time ago, but I actually got 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.760 to bring him out to LA and feature him in 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.120 a TV special called A Weirdoul's Guide to the Grammys 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:10.960 because polka was a category for the first time that year. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.400 Sometime in the late eighties, I guess, and we did 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.160 a whole thing where we you know, gave him a 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.120 fake star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and we 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.719 did a poolside interview. We did a whole Frankie Goes 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:20.400 to Hollywood. 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:30.160 So, growing up or at least being a teenager in 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:36.280 the seventies and on the dawning of disco, how are 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:42.240 you able to have a high school existence sort of 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.079 like you know, with band practice and that sort of 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.040 thing with the accordion? Like were you starting bands and 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:47.720 those things? 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.960 I tried, and for some reason, none of my friends 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.360 that had bands felt the need for an accordion player. 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.720 I don't know why. I just I found out early 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.560 on that if I really wanted to to play the accordion, 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.719 I could either you know, play for bar Mitza's and 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.800 Italian weddings, or it could go my own way. And 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:10.120 I was always drawn toward the bizarre and comedy, and 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:12.679 and when I was exposed to Doctor Demento, that really 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:14.280 kind of opened the door for me because I thought, oh, well, 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:15.520 these are my people. 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.640 I see so with well, I want to know, like 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.960 right before Doctor Demento, like were you could you play 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:25.640 any other instrument or not? 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:26.160 Not? 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.240 Really? I mean, you know, when when you played the accordion, 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.360 that means you can also play the piano, of course, 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:34.680 but so so technically I could, but my right hand 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:36.959 is very used to keys and my left hand is 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.320 not so to this day, if I'm playing piano, I'm 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:44.040 you know, my left hand is just either I'm playing 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.920 some very rudimentary lines or I'm waving to the crowd. 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:52.240 That is weird. Okay, So explain me the Doctor Demento 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.680 connection in seventy six with you given him. 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.000 When I when I actually gave him a tape. Doctor 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:03.240 Demento came my high school oddly enough and was doing 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.120 an assembly sometimes he was on a show where he does, 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:11.000 you know, does an educational assembly of comedy and demented music, 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.160 and he happened to be at Lynwood High School and 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.440 I at the same time, he was doing a contest 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.240 called a contest for Peko and Supulvita, which is his 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.120 theme song, and people were sending in their own versions 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.480 of the Peako and Supulvia Pico and Supulvita Pico and Sapulvita. 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.240 And I did my own horrible version of it and 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:33.760 gave him the cassette tape in person, and I think 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:37.680 he promptly lost it. It was terrible, and I never 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:39.320 made it to air, but that was my first contact 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.560 with him, and since then I would send him stuff 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.720 on the mail, and eventually it got good enough that 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:46.600 he started playing them on the radio. But when I 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.880 first started, I was like thirteen years old. They were 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.280 I mean, even the stuff he played was horrible, but 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.560 before that they were extra horrible. 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.000 Were these originals or did you even start the world 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:02.120 of parody then, like I sort of thing. 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:04.280 It was a little bit of both. I mean, Peoples 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.080 a pub but it would have my cover. But yeah, 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.240 the first songs I sent him, it was a combination 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:12.880 of originals and and and parodies, but none none of 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:14.720 it had much of a rock feel to it, because 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.600 you know, I was used to my classical training on 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.720 the accordion was was Polka's and some classical pieces, so 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.320 didn't I really kind of got into playing rock on 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.840 the accordion by just playing along with my Elton John 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.640 records and things like that, just trying to figure out 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:28.800 like rock chord structures. 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:33.040 Okay, So the first time I've heard of you was 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.960 I think another One Rides the Bus and I think 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:38.720 it was like eighty one, like someone Wall. 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.800 It was the actual date that we did that was 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:45.560 September fourteenth, nineteen eighty, which was it was live performance 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.160 because we never re recorded that. I just played it 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.960 live on the Doctor Demento Show and he had that 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:52.560 was it. It was live on the show and he 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:54.640 just happened to turn the tape recorder on for it 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.200 for an air check. And that air check of that 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.600 live recording that is the master tape to this day, 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.840 the original tape. I would assume Doctor Demento has it, 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:06.680 but I mean it it sounds just like you know 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:07.440 what's on the record. 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.120 Is he still Doctor Minio is still alive? 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.320 He is, Yeah, he he's not on terrestrial radio anymore, 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.840 but he is still doing a weekly show at Doctor 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.400 Demento dot com. So he's still doing it, same, same 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:17.920 same show. 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:22.000 Wow. Okay, see your initial rhythm section kind of had 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.920 this fart noisy thing that I used to always be 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:29.400 obsessed with. Like that started. You know, every kid has 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:31.760 an obsession with farting, uh huh. But it was when 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:33.760 I heard another one rise the bus. Then I started 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:37.160 like like trying to do fart right. First of all, 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.720 who's making that noise? And then who's how do. 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:44.000 You that that is? Musical Mike Keefer. Mike Keefer has 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:45.880 been part of the Doctor Meno show for many years 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.920 and he is the technical term is manualist, a person 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:53.840 that makes those flatulent noises with his hands. And I 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:55.360 used him a lot. I used him a lot for 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.680 the first few albums, not so much in later albums. 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.960 But it was quite a process because he would have 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.120 to make a it was a whole process to record 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:03.760 that in the studio. First, he'd have to wash his 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.919 hands very thoroughly because they couldn't be at all greasy. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.280 They had to be super squeaky clean dry. And then 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.320 we use two microphones because when he puts his hands together, 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:14.359 one noise would come out of the top of the 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:16.119 hands and one noise would come out of the bottom 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.560 of the hands, so we get real actual stereo separation. 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:32.760 Yeah yeah, no, don't yeah right now. Uh so how 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:36.800 did you well, I know that, uh was my BALLOONA 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.320 on the B side? I'm not certain, but how did 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.959 you how did you get to the next level from 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.760 just like making this stuff for Dotor Demento and then 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.240 like there's labels out there, I want to. 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:49.680 My balloon was the year before that was recorded literally 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.320 in a bathroom. Uh, and it wasn't the northern wris 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:53.840 of the bus. And then and that was still while 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:55.560 I was in college. I was getting my degree in 0:17:55.680 --> 0:18:00.480 architecture at the time, uh the California Polytechnic State University 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:05.119 at San Luis Obispo. And uh so and after I graduated, Uh, 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.840 basically I knew that I didn't want to be an architect. 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:10.560 I wasn't sure that I'd ever be able to make 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:12.399 a career in the music industry, because just because you 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:14.600 have a hit on the Doctor Atmano Show, that doesn't 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.840 really mean anything in the real world. But I decided, well, 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.080 you know, I'm young, and uh, I've got some time, 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.280 and let me knock on a few doors. And uh Luckily, 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:25.120 within a couple of years, I was able to rent 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.560 land a record deal. So based on the early recordings 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.119 and some new demos that I'd donated I Love Rocky 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:32.920 Road for I love rock and roll, and and based 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:34.879 on that, we were able to land Rick Deringer as 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:38.680 a producer and a Scottie Brothers as a record label, 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.760 and that we did. The first album did okay, it 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:43.639 didn't brint up the chart, but it did fine, and 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.200 it was it did well enough to merit me doing 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:50.719 a second album, and the second album, yeah, that's when 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:51.800 it happened with yeah. 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:57.000 Yeah, but even even then, what was the selling point 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:01.280 that you know, like this is were you trying to say, 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.720 look as a comedian, Were you trying to be billed 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:08.000 as a comedian or you know, well shatteririst. 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:11.280 Or just I you know, I wasn't so much into labels, 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.960 but uh uh, you know I I I was going 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:17.080 for grins. It was obviously a comedy act. It was 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.159 meant to be meant to be novelty, and that that 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:20.359 was the reason why it was hard for me to 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:22.280 get signed to a record deal, because we you know, 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.800 we know, we approached basically every record store in a 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.320 record company in town and uh record stores too, but 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:32.520 record company in town, and they all said, oh, this 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.200 is really funny stuff, this is brilliant work. Yeah, we're 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.560 not interested. This is novelty. You're going to be like 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:39.560 you know, if you're lucky, you'll be a footnote and 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:40.920 you'll be gone in six months. So we want, we 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:42.960 want artists are gonna have a lot of lasting career. 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.800 Yeah, So with in three D, did you think like, Okay, 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:48.720 this is gonna be my one and only album, And. 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.920 Well, I mean it was sort of a you know, 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.040 you never know because when I was signed, it was 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:57.159 I was signed to a ten album deal. And that 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.760 does that doesn't mean, oh, I'm going to do ten albums. 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.879 That means on the extremely off chance that I'm successful 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:07.840 enough to have ten albums, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, anytime, right, 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.640 So you never know, you never know. And my first album, 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:12.480 like I said, it did okay but not great. And 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:15.200 you know, every album could about my last, so you 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:18.719 always have that in mind. But after Edith came out, 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:21.240 after N three D came out and it did so well, 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:23.600 I was pretty sure there's gonna be another album after that. 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:26.760 Can you explain to us just, uh, I guess the 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:30.280 legal way that you're able to do the parody? What's 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.440 the line between parody and you know, right in friends? 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:35.879 Yeah, Like, how do you how do you navigate that? 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:38.159 I always try to go a little above and beyond because, 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:42.280 according to the Supreme Court rulings, UH, fair use would 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:44.800 imply that I could get away with a lot more 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:47.520 than I do. Uh, you know, in terms of parody 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.680 and satire, I don't necessarily have to ask permission but 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:53.680 I always do because part of my logic is that 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.480 I want to have long term relationships with all the 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.000 artists that I'm parodying, and I want, I really honestly 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:00.680 want them to feel like there and I'm the joke. 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:03.119 I don't want anybody to be upset or offended that 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:04.600 I'm doing a parody of one of their songs. It's 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:06.639 all making good fun and I want them, you know, 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:08.040 I don't want to step on anybody's toes. 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.680 So then with the parody works that you make, how 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:13.520 is the publishing split between is it you or is 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:14.920 it all the old artists? 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:18.480