Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2123 - Gary Clark Jr.
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2123 - Gary Clark Jr.' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-03-22. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2123 - Gary Clark Jr.

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
So how much of a relief is it to have the album done?
You've been working on this for a while, huh?
Yeah, it would be a relief if I got a chance to chill out.
I just kind of mixed it, mastered it, mastered it again.
That took a little while, and I was supposed to go on vacation.
I was going to take a trip and go chill out and, like, think about it.
That didn't end up happening, so I just turned my phone off for, like, two or
three days,
and then it was, let's go talk about it and break it all down.
So it's a relief.
It's finally done, but it just kind of kept going, so I haven't had a chance to,
like, chill on it.
Those breaks are important, right?
Those just vacation breaks, just shut your brain off breaks?
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't, yeah, I really wanted that one.
I really, really wanted that one.
Looking forward to those margaritas.
I needed it.
I just wanted to go be by myself, just camp out in the woods by myself or
something.
Oh, really?
Yeah, just be completely solo.
Oh, yeah.
And just chill out, you know?
I just made 40.
I just wanted to go chill out and go, wow, you know, reflect and be like, wow,
this first 40's been pretty cool.
Like, what's going to happen in the next?
And it was like, boom, New York City, Tonight Show, Questlove looking at me.
And I was like, this is not what the plan was.
Sometimes you got to force the plan and all those other people.
Yeah, absolutely.
You have a lot of people to make happy.
Absolutely.
But I'm also excited to do it, you know?
Sometimes if I get too comfortable, I get comfortable just being comfortable.
Right.
And then nothing gets made.
Yeah, you know, I kind of like to get out there and get the nerves going, blood
going a little bit.
Yeah.
Get out in front of folks and figure it out.
Yeah.
You know, so it's been cool.
Well, that's a little bit of a vacation from the creative process of making it,
right?
Because the process of making it, I mean, you were, I mean, I know, you were
locked up.
Yeah, yeah.
You lock yourself up, dude.
You do it.
Like, when you do it, you go all in.
Well, I think I still care about this shit.
You can tell.
I really care.
Like, you know, people are like, what the hell are you making a whole album for?
It's about singles.
I'm like, I still like listening to a full record, putting a record down, you
know, having the needles scratch the thing and playing it and then, you know,
flipping that other side and seeing what's happening.
I still like listening to a record from top to bottom.
If there's anything that I've ever learned, it's that do what you like to do.
It doesn't matter what the trend of the business is.
Just fucking do what you'd like to do.
Oh, yeah.
If you like albums, make a fucking album.
Yeah, yeah, sure.
And so, yeah, that's what I did.
I mean, I was locked in.
A lot of it was by choice, too.
You know, it was like, I just love being in a spot.
I built a studio.
I was like, well, why not fucking use it?
Yeah.
You know?
So that's what I did kind of to a fault.
My wife was like, you got to get out of there.
You know, trying to hang with you, get me out of the house, socialize me and
stuff.
But I was just locked in, you know?
Just nerding out, trying to make noise, organize noise, you know?
But the end is beautiful.
Thanks, dude.
The end result is beautiful.
Thank you.
Thanks for...
There's so many layers to the music, man.
I got it last night.
They sent me a link, but then the link needed a passcode, and I could have got
a passcode.
And then last night, they sent me the link.
So while I was writing last night, when I came from the store, I listened to
the whole album.
Awesome.
Man, there's so many...
The music, the sounds, like right off the bat, there's so many layers.
Yeah.
It's like, you know, it's very...
You could tell there's so much thought into it.
There's a lot of smoke in the air.
Yeah.
A lot of mezcal.
A lot of vino flowing.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, it was just...
And there was nobody saying...
You know, usually it's...
For me, people expect a certain thing, you know?
And I have talks like, no strings on the album.
Stay away from singing falsetto stuff because your core fans don't like it.
And I was like, I just don't give a fuck.
Like, I didn't care.
It was in the middle of COVID.
Yeah.
So everybody was locked down.
And I was just like, my phone was down.
Nobody was talking to anybody.
I just got weird, man.
I got weird in the studio.
To me, that is so crazy that anybody is around you that gives you that kind of
advice.
Well, it's folks that are in the business.
And, you know, I guess people...
I've been told that I'm not...
I'm a hard act to put on a shelf.
You don't know where to put me.
So they don't know how to market or sell this confused kid who plays power
chords and listen
to Nirvana who also loves Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre who thinks that Thelonious Monk
is one of the baddest dudes on the planet
who wants to play harmonica like Sonny Boy Williamson.
They're like, what the fuck are you?
You're Gary Clark Jr.?
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Exactly, exactly.
But it's a weird time, you know.
Like, just people want to be able to call you something.
Yeah.
You know, so they tried to do the whole next Jimi Hendrix thing, and that didn't
really work out.
I kind of rebelled on that.
Yeah.
And they were like, oh, fuck, now what?
You know?
So here we are.
You know what I mean?
But, you know, there's no reason not to try shit.
All my favorite artists tried shit.
Yeah.
I mean, that's why I like, you know, Prince.
Mm-hmm.
Like, unapologetically.
Stevie Wonder.
Yeah.
You know, that's also why I like hanging out with you motherfuckers, because y'all
just be trying shit.
You know where the wall is when you hit that motherfucker and you go, oh.
You know?
Well, the thing about our thing is we have to do it in front of people.
Yeah, right.
So it's me stoned in front of a computer going, oh, this is so crazy.
Writing shit out, putting it on my phone, and then going, all right, let's see.
Mm-hmm.
Let's see what other people, let's see how it comes to life.
But you can create all kinds of magic alone.
That's a different thing.
Well, I might think it's magic, and you never know.
I think it's magic.
Until the thing drops.
So we'll see what happens.
But, yeah, I feel good about it.
Thanks for listening, man.
Oh, my pleasure.
I appreciate it.
Man, dude, I Don't Know You A Thing kicks off our fucking night almost every
night at the mothership.
When we get in that green room, we get in that green room, we want to get
things popping.
I Don't Know You A Thing is a fucking, that's a work of art.
That's a classic.
It's just kind of a rude, fuck y'all, I'm here.
Yeah, it's awesome.
It's awesome.
Yeah.
But congrats on one year, man.
Thank you.
One year.
Yeah, it's crazy.
It's awesome.
It flew by.
Yeah.
It feels like we just opened.
Y'all been doing it, man.
That word on the street, y'all are taking over.
It's game-changing.
It's fun.
For real.
We got so many guys moved here now.
Oh, I know.
They're my neighbors now.
Way out in the country.
Well, that's the smart way to live, man.
I tell everybody.
I go, attack it from the outside.
Yeah.
Like, Tony Hinchcliffe, he likes living in the city.
I'm like, that's great, everything like that.
But you're going to go crazy.
You want to be outside.
Get that balance.
When I lived in L.A., I lived way outside of L.A.
in the hills with coyotes and mountain lions and shit.
I had to worry about hawks.
Yeah.
You know, those are like the things that I would think about.
I'd like just that quiet, just quiet, and then get into the crazy,
and then get back to the quiet.
It's a choice.
Yeah.
It's a choice.
Just have a, like, the way you're doing it's perfect.
Live in the country.
Just relax.
Yeah.
When you get outside and drink a cup of coffee on your porch, man,
you're just chilling.
It's just birds and shit.
Yeah.
Just beautiful grass and trees.
Yeah.
I've become such a fucking nerd, bro.
I've been sitting outside and, like, walking around my house.
I've gone to the camera store.
I've spent way too much money on camera gear trying to capture the perfect clip
to send National Geographic of the Mexican Eagles in my backyard.
You got Mexican Eagles in your backyard?
I've been sitting out there with the crazy zoom lens.
Oh, yeah?
I'm just quiet, stalking them.
Trying to get this shot.
Yeah, I spend way too much time out there.
But, you know, it's...
So you got one of those big, crazy nature lenses?
I'm that guy.
Oh, wow.
I think I might quit music and try and get a gig doing that.
Really?
I'd get off doing that.
Really?
I get...
Yeah, I'm...
Yeah.
That's a Mexican Eagle?
Wow, what a cool-looking bird.
Yeah, man.
He's got a toupee or something on.
Yeah, yeah.
He's got a little wig on.
Crested Caraca.
Yeah, yeah.
Is that how you say it?
Caracara?
Caracara.
Caraca.
Yeah.
Caracara?
Mexican Eagle, what a fucking beautiful animal.
Yeah, yeah.
You have those in your yard?
Yeah, there's a family of like three of them.
They swoop down and hang out all the time.
I had a hawk try to sweep in on my chickens the other day.
Mm-hmm.
The chickens in the backyard, and all of a sudden the chickens start going,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, flopping their wings and
running
around.
I look at them, there's this hawk circling.
You got to watch out for those motherfuckers.
I saw a hawk swoop up a kid, and I didn't think about that when I moved out
into the...
This is on video or something.
I don't know if this was fake.
It's probably an eagle, yeah.
Yeah, but I was like, I didn't even think about having to look out for that in
the country
because the hawk came down and swooped up or swooped down and got one of my
chickens right
in front of my boy.
He was like five at the time.
He's like, what is that?
I was like, whew, that's, you know, that's the world happening.
That's nature.
That's nature.
That's how it goes down in the real world.
Exactly.
Not this weird thing that we've constructed to insulate ourselves from it.
And think that we're the most powerful.
I mean, when you sit out there and you see a hawk swoop down and grab another,
you know,
sizable animal and just take off with it, you're like, okay.
You know, it's not that safe.
I mean, I walk around out there on my property and there's been a couple of
times where I've
almost stepped on a rattlesnake.
You know, my wife and kids just stepped over a rattlesnake getting out of the
truck right there in the driveway.
And those little baby rattlers, they had no idea.
I looked down, stomped on his head.
I was like, you know, you don't have to think about crazy things like that, you
know.
Going fishing.
My daughter caught a water moccasin.
Oh, shit.
Yeah.
On a fishing line?
Yeah.
She was all excited.
Daddy, I got a snake.
I was like, yo.
Not that one.
Not that one.
That is not the one you want.
Wow.
On a hook?
Yeah, on a hook.
It was like one of those little kid poles.
It's like an Elsa or one of those little princess poles.
Right, right.
She was just, you know, reeling in cotton mouths.
Wow.
Like nothing.
Country.
I didn't know they bought on the line like that.
Like they'll attack bait?
I didn't know that either.
Mm-hmm.
Damn.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So come get some of that if you want to step out of the city, you know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I love it, though.
Yeah, I do, too.
I love getting into the madness.
You know, I don't want to hate on it.
I mean, I love wandering in.
I love wandering around downtown with the camera, popping into certain spots.
And, you know, I check in on y'all.
Go to the blues spots and catch the madness.
And got to excite myself to shake it up a little bit, you know.
And then just take it back home and get the zoom lens out and nerd away.
Well, it's a good balance of different things.
And if you want to go see, like, live shit, like, this town is so good for that,
man.
There's so much live performance going on.
There's so much co