Name: Joe Rogan Experience #757 - Gary Clark, Jr.
Uploaded: 2016-02-08T23:24:00.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #757 - Gary Clark, Jr.' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-02-08. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #757 - Gary Clark, Jr.

yes Gary Clark Jr welcome to the show thank you how are you I'm great man I'm
great I owe Ari
Shafir to connect me to you he's the one who connected me yeah he he he goes
check this out
he played numb for me I go who is this motherfucker yeah and then from there on
I've been a Gary Clark
awesome respect to Ari appreciate it yeah man what's going on man oh man just
trying to figure
out LA I came out here in July and just kind of figuring it out man is not
Austin not at all
no not at all but I'm starting to get a little bit you know familiar and Austin's
a couple hours
away on an airplane so I can figure it out um but yeah man I'm glad you you hit
me up uh the um
honey honey crew yeah that's the one who like pop that off so yeah yeah Suzanne
connected us yeah
they're great they're good people man I love those guys yeah I ran into them at
um bridge school benefit
uh the new young thing so it's good to reconnect first time I came out here we
did a gig with them
oh really yeah yeah so what made you move from Austin which is like one of the
best spots in the world if
you could pull it off to California which is still one of the best spots in the
world if you can pull
it off but so much more complex so much more bullshit so much more ego so much
more traffic so much more
actors right that's true man that's very true but um I spent some time in New
York City I spent my whole
life in Austin always wanting to come out west and figure out what it's like
you know and um so I got
the opportunity to do it so I'm just out here checking it out being a few
months oh so there was no like
specific like pulling reason you said let me just try LA no me and my girl just
decided we would spend
some time out here I like it yeah I like moves like that man I think about
doing those all the time
but my wife is so not into that because I moved that to the top of a mountain
at one time
and she almost fell off the cliff oh for real get driving the snow my dog got
killed by a mountain
lion it was a bunch of happened yeah meanwhile I was in heaven loved it damn
yeah well yeah
speaking of mountain lions I heard they're like creeping around over here there's
quite a few of them
yeah there you can't hunt them in California so they have no natural predators
other than cars
right and um there's people that think that's a good idea because they keep the
deer population in
check there's a good argument for that because we don't have Lyme disease it's
very little Lyme
disease in California and one of the reasons for that is that not that many
deer especially around here
whereas if you're on the east coast the east coast right now has a real Lyme
disease epidemic
because these deer are overpopulated and overpopulated deer means they don't
get enough
food and they're more susceptible to disease and fucking Lyme disease is the
big one ticks these
ticks with Lyme disease I know a bunch of people from the east coast that have
got Lyme disease it's
fucking bad it's big down in Texas too there's deer everywhere yeah so I guess
that's a good thing
but I'd be freaked out if I walked out you know most of the time enough to
worry most of the time they're
going after cats and dogs and shit like that they kill a lot of rabbits and
small animals and deer
they decimate the deer population they kill most of the deer with either coyotes
get them or mountain
lions get them like when I see deer in my neighborhood it's pretty unusual
whereas if I go back east like
uh you know like I have a buddy who lives on a farm in um well he owns a farm
in Wisconsin there's
fucking deer everywhere there so that's the type of place where you got to
worry about ticks
fuck that you worried about mountain lions I mean uh anything that could like
take a chunk out of me
I'm a little bit worried about where do you live uh well don't say specifically
yeah yeah not out here
live somewhere hilly no no okay you're all right you're in the flatlands where
the people are yeah
although they did kill one in someone's backyard in Santa Monica two years ago
yeah
fucking Santa Monica do you remember that it was a big one too it was like 150
pound cat and some dude's
yard just chilling sleeping in his yard I can't do that I can't do that talk
about something else
I'm gonna freak down really I just don't I just don't fuck with nature
you know what I mean I'm not you know I love that that should be a meme you
know I don't it's
I respect it you know yeah me too so um and you know I'm not really into
getting eaten by some
but just that phrase I don't fuck with nature
that should be a picture of you with a guitar pointing at the camera that just
says I don't
fuck with nature yeah right oh man I didn't you know what I mean I know exactly
what you mean yeah
it's dangerous man you go out there in the wilderness and you know there's a
beauty cities are great
you know people think that somehow or another if you love nature that you don't
love cities
I love everything cities is beauty and everything can't can't be closed-minded
yeah I agree I mean
I'm coming from where I'm from Austin there's you know city and then there's
nice land around it so
I like to jump back and forth and and be involved in both but I will not fuck
with mountain lions
I don't mess with sharks no me neither man yeah I'm down with that my kids are
going to start taking
surfing lessons they're little five and seven they want to take surfing lessons
like that's like a bite
like one bite like you don't even survive if you get bitten by a shark if you're
five do you serve no
yeah I don't fuck with sharks either yeah I would sure I would serve if they
would figure out some sort of
bite-proof suit for sure you know that's what's holding me back yeah that's
definitely what's holding me back
I would have a bite-proof suit and then I would want a big-ass knife strapped
to my thigh
so if a shark did bite me and it didn't get through I'd just right in his head
boom mother fucker take that take it bitch yeah yeah
I hear you well there's a lot of them over here too there's more sharks for
sure than there are
mountain lions I think what did I say for sure if I think but when you uh fly
over California like
there's a lot of like helicopters that fly over like the Malibu coast they they
take video footage of
big-ass great white sharks all the time that are just a couple hundred yards
away from people surfing
yeah no thanks thanks there's a lot of helicopters out here in LA in general
yeah wow well because
it's a big flat area and there's a lot of criminals it's a good way to catch
people put a spot it's
weird when you watch it you know they call them ghetto birds it's weird when
you watch when the
helicopters are flying over and they have a spotlight on somebody you start
feeling guilty you haven't even
done shit yeah I know you know I'm particularly sensitive I would imagine yeah
especially it wasn't
out of town wasn't me today damn it how long you been doing music man man um I've
been
playing guitar since 96 uh I always kind of wanted one and my folks were I had
a habit of of quitting what I
started you know like I played baseball for a little bit I tried to do martial
arts for a little bit I
tried to do um basketball football and none of it kind of stuck I would always
kind of go back to music
so finally 96 I just I got in it and quit caring about anything you know I got
a guitar
discovered herb and I was like yeah that was about it did you take lessons or
did you self-taught um I
didn't take lessons formally like I didn't pay anybody for lessons I probably
should at this point
but my friend of mine Eve Monse she had a guitar and she had a band and she uh
her and her band would
practice all the time so I would hear them so I would go over there and check
it out and I'll take my guitar
like a 12-bar blues kind of like a jimmy reed shuffle type thing or like a you
know power chord
rock and roll thing whatever and um so that was kind of how I first started and
I rented books I went
to the school library in my middle school library and just rented like how to
play guitar and wow
watch this tv show Austin city limits it came on I know every Saturday so I
used to just sit there and
figure it out you know record the tapes and go back and figure it out so it was
essentially like
the first thing that you really connected to that you stuck with
yeah what was it about playing guitar uh I think the thing for me was
um I mean I love music and I mean the guitar for me was the instrument that
could it could
paint so many different colors it was very versatile you know it could be loud
aggressive
or it could be sweet beautiful um and uh I just thought if I could get my hands
on one of those
I would you know try and push it to the limit and you know and I really figure
out um
you just play with like the full spectrum it's different than you know playing
an electric guitar
for me it seemed more uh like there were more options than like uh playing
drums or playing trumpet or
something yeah I mean with toys and you know yeah things like that so that was
it I don't know I'm still
trying to figure it out I'm as interested in it you know 20 years later as I
was you know then that
means you got the right thing yeah I definitely found it so fortunate that way
that's one of the
harder things for kids right when you're a young kid and you don't really know
what you want to do with
your life and your your whole future just looks like just confusing sometimes
the hardest thing is
finding something that really rings your bell like finding something so for you
did it seems like
there was a bunch of different other options it didn't just didn't really click
and then the guitar
just that was it yeah well I mean baseball I was a terrible hitter I was pretty
fast basketball I was
tall but I was thin so you know put me in the post and I get pushed out by
these huge guys and I got
tired of my coach going god damn a junior when he would quit being a bitch you
know like so um
you know it's just just with music it was just it just kind of clicked it was
something for me
what martial arts did you do I tried taekwondo um yeah perfect build for that
yeah I just didn't have
the patience at the time I really didn't I wish I stuck with it you know um but
I yeah I didn't have
the patience or the discipline I didn't want to you know be focused right I
wanted to you know there's
something out the window I want to go run and yeah jump out the window go ride
bikes or whatever it was
so you know they call that add but I call that just being a person being
curious like there's a lot of
shit that doesn't occupy your attention you're supposed to make it occupy your
attention right you know
well you keep yourself pretty busy yeah but like but look at like guitar
obviously occupied your attention
you know I'm saying it's like I don't believe in add for in a lot of senses in
a lot of ways I think
there's obviously some people that have like a mental issue but I think for
most people what they're
calling ADD is being bored hmm you're just bored yeah like school how boring is
school
school's terribly boring yeah I was terrible in it I was terrible too I spent a
lot of my time
yeah you should stay in school kids but I spent a lot of time showing up to
that building and then
immediately turning back around and going and doing what interested me yeah and
look at you now
motherfucker I'm doing all right but I'm doing all right it's it's finding the
thing and then going
after it that's what it is and what school does is teaches you that the future
is bleak in a lot of
ways obviously it educates you and obviously for people that that go on to
choose some sort of an academic
career it's imperative right but for a lot of people that pushing you to pay
attention to
you don't want to pay attention to it stifles creativity it's just not the best
way for people
to learn it gives you like this horrible feeling about the future like you feel
like an outsider
yeah I didn't feel comforta