GOML LIVE #182
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Summary
Devon talks about his early days in the music business, the early days of his career as a musician, and how he became a comedian. He also tells the story of how he almost died on stage in front of thousands of people.
Transcript
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New York is Devil Monday One with Devon Welcome back to Get Off My Lawn Live.
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We used to do this show in many different ways.
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It's meant to advertise the brand, but the strange part about this Thursday night show is it's nothing like any other show.
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It has nothing to do with the brand whatsoever.
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That opening band was Zulu, a very awesome hardcore band, black dudes.
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And they're not a big fan of the white guys, which hurts my feelings because I'm one of those dudes.
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I don't think you can enjoy art if you are hung up about what the people making the art feel.
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So if you hate me and you make good art, I don't care.
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Like Jay Johnson, one of the funniest people in the world, comedian in LA.
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Not a comedian, a funny dude in L.A. I don't think he's a big fan of the G. But when I go down there, I hang out with him.
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I torture him with my personality, and we have a good time.
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We recording Anal Chinook songs with Rick Rubin.
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Rick Rubin came to my house and set up a studio.
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And we recorded seven of eight of our live songs.
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We recorded Pubic Lice, Women's Rights song, Red Blisters.
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We recorded a song about the ozone layer, a song about acid rain.
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It's weird recording songs from a 1980s hardcore band because none of these things exist anymore.
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That's like a Portlandia sketch where it's like, in 2023, you're going to be dead.
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Well, back then, we were like, in 1990, we're all going to be dead.
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It's like, well, it's been 23 years since then.
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They will be confronting Rick Rubin about various cop videos we have.
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I went to pick him up and he was dying of AIDS.
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He was doing the weirdest cough I've ever heard.
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We started out joking like, haha, what the fuck?
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It was a weird, froggy, like, and he was puking.
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And I was like, I'm not going to say yes to that.
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But what I was saying to John Budd, I'm going to call you Bud and Camo.
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What I said to Bud was, his dad died like five years ago when he was this age.
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Yeah, but what was that whole thing with selling the bongo drums in the meantime?