Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1356 - Sturgill Simpson & His Band
Uploaded: 2019-10-01T03:30:00.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1356 - Sturgill Simpson & His Band' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-10-01. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1356 - Sturgill Simpson & His Band

we willed it into existence to to to sturgill motherfucking simpson and his
band uh just let's
introduce everybody okay want to do that yeah you can do it all right uh next
to you is my my drummer
miles we have chuck he plays the bass down on the end is bob he plays the keys
and this is our
uh head of security this is justin he's uh you know we weren't sure about this
place so we brought
it's a sketchy joint um you guys were fantastic last night we had a great time
thanks man so the
troubadour is such a great place to see you too because it's so intimate man
you know it's such a
it's it's a really interesting place it's so tight you know it's so old school
and a
million shows have happened in that joint everybody everybody yeah it was
interesting for us we didn't
feel like it was a good show i think we kind of woke up about halfway through
but also the first time
we've been this close to people in a while it was a great show man i enjoyed
the out of it and uh
suzanne from honey honey suzanne santos she came with me too she loved it it
was great man we had a good
time oh yeah it wasn't a bad show either no come on it was amazing we had a
great time and it's just uh
it's such a a treat to see someone in such a small venue you know that venue is
so like everybody was like
jammed up on on top of everybody so when people went nuts for the songs you
know like you felt it
like you really realize when you're in a venue like that how much that
contributes to the experience
you know intimate intimate venues a venue can ruin a good show sure yeah than
anything uh we don't i
don't really like the the amphitheater like the outdoor amphitheater yes the
tin roof sheds i feel the
same it's just not it's there's no connection because everybody that is close
to you is sitting
down and then there's this giant picnic going on behind them up on the grass it's
always just a
weird separation what happened jamie what are we doing sorry oh i thought you
were trying something new
out um yeah the amphitheaters are weird i mean uh they could be great oh there
oh there's the picture
from the true door last night that was fun man nice that place i mean how many
people is that seat
probably 400 i think 500 500 stuffed in there that is a fire hazard for sure
someone someone bobby's organs
of fire hazard it was a good time though it really was i saw everlast perform
there recently he was there
like uh just a few weeks ago i met that dude once he's awesome he is a chill
guy man he really is the
best we're at it was up my this guy dom owns like a skate it's like a skate
shop my buddy ian took me to
this skate shop and he has a bunch of sneakers there i was looking for some
sneakers and just this little
sleepy skate shop and uh and then he's like yeah let's go out back and we
walked up back and there's
like 12 x games champions back there just slaying this half pipe i've never
really seen that that
up close like that just like you know thrashing and uh it was intense and then
we're sitting there
hanging out and then everlast shows up i was just like this dude from house of
pain is crazy but he was
so cool he's super cool but i remember the one of the first times i ever met
him it's one of those
weird ones where you're like am i really hanging out with this guy is this
really everlast from house
of pain right because you know jump around was such a goddamn gigantic hit it
was like one of the
greatest hits of all time like one of the greatest i mean i guess you would
call that a hip-hop song
right but it was it was a giant hit with like my generation so to be hanging
out with him was super
surreal i'm sure he's had a very interesting journey yeah yes he was the first
guy i ever smoked a joint with
with inside a casino too he just fired it up i go where you want to smoke that
he goes where
he just starts smoking it i was like all right i guess we're going to do that
that was a pretty
album i think i was in like seventh grade it was very nefarious i remember that
yeah nefarious is
a good word for it you know i rip shit kill it yeah cut your gut and spill it
treat you like a gas tank
take that ass and fill it yes that's nefarious go for a ride to where i reside
put your face on
my pillow and have you weeping like a willow it's what it is y'all it's prolific
yeah it's prolific
that's intimidating right for sure that doesn't that doesn't freak you out a
little
especially if someone says it with uh with his voice you know all smooth and in
a larry bird jersey
you've tried a lot of different forms of music do you ever think you would ever
do hip-hop
oh god no that would be a weird stretch uh well there's just so many other
people that should do it
other than me you know um i would love to but no i would love to produce a hip-hop
record with bob i think
we could probably make some fat tracks and just get some rappers to do the
actual art yeah you know
i think i know what you're saying i know how you're feeling but i think you
could pull it off
i think rapping yeah i think you could sturge ill yes he kind of already does
all right you gonna give me up man yeah i think it wraps a little bit no i spit
on the bus a little
bit truth be told all right you know yeah poems you'd have to be lit but you
could do it you know
who can rap for a white guy shia la boeuf man yeah he did some radio show years
back out here in l.a
and like it was actually impressive wow yeah his freestyle was was fire if for
a dude it's a who's a white
guy it's a risky choice right it's a risky choice he brought it and you got to
figure you got to decide
whether or not you're going to go with i want to produce a shia la boeuf album
rap album wow there
you go open up the doors yeah manifest it make it happen yeah white guy rappers
have to they have to
be real careful with their accent like you got to figure out how you're going
to yeah that's always
weird how you're going to pull that off i went to high school with a lot of
those white guys that like
did that tried to like talk like they were black and never could understand
what was going on it's a
weird one it's a weird one miles miles and i went to the same high school he
graduated like 15 years
after me so he knows about the wolfo woodford county the what i'm talking about
i'm sure it was still
very much a thing oh it still is yeah we were just talking about like how few
white guys become
successful rappers like what if of all the things that people attempt to do
that might be one of like
there's only like a few there's like you know eric from everlast from house of
pain there's uh eminem
there's uh mac miller mac miller yeah third base third base for sure those guys
those guys were great eminem of course yeah eminem of course might be number
one yeah he's number one i
think he's a just an all-time great rapper period yeah white guy or not but
like white guys that want
to rap boy the white guys that want to rap versus white guys who are successful
rapping that number
is stupendous those are not good odds that's intimidating right there's no
denying that some
white guys remember snow yes yeah informa like he had like a whole he did the
patois thing yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah talking to mike brother yeah sorry i just said he did the patois
thing yeah yeah yeah yeah he
went jamaican on us right yeah but it was really good which is even weirder it
was unless he's from
jamaica toronto is he oh was he yeah which does i mean it's not better but
there's a lot of that just
keeps getting better that's canada nice as hell up there how did he be like
yeah go to the mic go to the
snow is from toronto yeah i would never guess that yeah let's look that up good
call good call
i love that one song though that informer song was badass that's insane a
Canadian rapper would be no
what's that it doesn't say what city but he's from toronto he's from toronto
born in toronto yeah born
in toronto 49 ago wow there you go yeah he went jamaican and no one else even
ventured to step in his
footsteps it was like a successful hit song but it didn't like open up a whole
door of like jamaican it didn't even
open up a door for him man that's the only song anybody ever heard like but how
could it be that
good that always freaks me out about your business is that there are a few cats
that come up with one
song that just smashes it well that happens because whoever is in charge of
their career
has one venture's interest which is pushing that single and then it does its
thing and if they can't
come up with the identical thing again they don't know what to do and then they
just stick them on a
shelf and you never hear from them again i know but it just it's so it's so
final like if you're a comic
and you have a shitty special you can get your together and come up with a good
next special
there's nothing like a huge hit to destroy your music career
how many i mean really really good songs if you stop and think about history
were from a band where you heard like maybe two of their songs ever i would say
ninety percent of them
so many so many the pop in that in that world you know if you're like it's
radio songs yeah and
syndication yeah this is usually how much is that changing for you guys because
the internet i mean
you when you first started your career like how much of an effect did the
internet have on like promoting
things or getting the word out on things versus now huge because we were not on
radio even now when
did you wait when when did we get triple a play now things like that but you're
not gonna um i guess
early on touring blogs and reviews uh press and things like that get circulated
word of mouth from shows
people come to shows they get their mind blown they talk about it on twitter
you know and then it just
it's this organic grassroots kind of thing and you sort of realize at a point
you don't really need
any of that other antiquated people but to but to make it happen like we did
you have to go out and
do the laps you have to put the time and earn your medals you can't like just
sit on youtube right
talking about yourself all the time that's a big part right your shows like how
many live shows you guys
you're doing well now it's already out there so people just do it for you
really it spreads easier
and faster now but like you know miles has been with we've been playing
together since he was 19
man like in a van four people sleeping on one wow this was about two weeks ago
uh and you drive seven
miles and or i'm sorry seven hours and you hope 13 people show up to maybe buy
a t-shirt and
shit so you got gas to get to the next town there's a lot of life questioning
nights out there in the early
days you know like you know roy wood is roy wood jr really hilarious stand-up
comedian he had a really
similar story when he was talking about his uh beginnings as a comedian that he
would get these
gigs and he wouldn't have enough money to get home and that he would uh get
gigs and while he was there
he would take a job like a day job like a day labor he would you know wear hard
hats and gloves and
shit work all day and then do the stand-up at night it's like that those guys
who go through that kind
of stuff there's no substitute for that no there's no there's no other way like
to to really get that
there's something about the seasoning of the unsuccessful or barely successful
early years
it seems for all my favorite artists it's it's so critical like they all have
it whether they're comics
or whether they're musicians there's that grind in the beginning where it could
go left or right
like you could make it or it could completely fall apart and you have to be
almost delusional and a
little crazy yes yes you know i was i mean i had a great job that i quit to go
do this
shit finally like give it a go i was probably 35 years old you know i mean
there's a lot of nights where
i was like what in the am i doing you know what i mean but it worked and yeah
but that's why last
night's so fun because nobody else well i wrote a song about turtl