Name: Red Clay Strays | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #501
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Red Clay Strays | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #501' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-05-10. Transcript available.

Red Clay Strays | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #501

Today's guests are two members of a band that I really enjoy.
They're out of Mobile, Alabama.
They have a new album coming out in May,
and they've been picking up some steam.
I'm grateful to spend time today with Brandon Coleman
and Andy Bishop from The Red Clay Stray.
Yeah, I guess Ben has that mustache.
Some people can't grow certain facial hair.
Oh, Brandon's a native man.
Yeah, I can't really.
I can grow a mustache and a little bit of a goatee, but that's it.
Everything else doesn't work.
Really? Why? What happened?
You weren't scalped or something.
How native are you?
I'm like Cherokee, so.
Doing the scalping.
Yeah, we were doing the scalping.
Then you'd think you'd have a little extra collection.
You would think so.
Like if my grandmother would have passed them down or something, you know,
but she never did any of that.
Wow.
And so was your grandmother, did she seem kind of native?
Like did she have a kind of a vibe like that?
A little bit.
It was really my great-great-grandmother.
I have an old black-and-white photo of her somewhere that's,
she's just straight-up Cherokee Indian.
Wow.
That's like straight out of Red Dead Redemption 2, you know.
Yeah, do you feel native sometimes?
I don't think so.
Like if you get near like, like I wonder if you hear stuff different than on
like a regular non-native person hears.
I'll speak on it.
I think Brandon gets a little frisky when like a, like a, like a rainstorm's
coming in, you know.
Yeah.
Him and his brother, we'd take, his brother's on the road with us too, our videographer.
Yeah, I met him one time and I met you guys.
He can actually throat sing pretty good too.
Yeah, he does it as a joke and everybody's like, you can't do that.
He's like, I'm native.
I can do that if I want to.
What?
He'll start really.
He'll get into it.
Yeah.
See, you can do it too.
Watch out.
That's powerful, man.
Yeah.
One time I was up in Minnesota, like in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and I went to,
they had a, what's
it called?
Like a big get together that natives have.
Powwow.
Every time I've heard the word powwow, it just meant backing trucks up to a
campfire and drinking
whiskey all night.
Yeah.
But that sounds pretty native to me too.
Yeah.
You know?
Cooking meat.
Throw a little gambling in there too.
Yeah.
Powwow is a gathering with dances held by many Native Americans and First
Nations communities.
I'd say so.
That's it.
Ben was right.
Yeah.
Ben was right.
I didn't sleep that great.
You guys have that ever?
Oh, dude.
All the time.
I don't think we sleep good until we go home.
Yeah.
I don't sleep well.
Going out on the road, it takes a couple of days to get used to sleeping on a
bus.
And then getting home, it takes a couple of days to get used to sleeping in
your own
bed again.
Yeah.
So that equals about no sleep.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It is kind of a, it's a real.
You're always trying to get comfortable.
Yeah.
That's what we carry a lot of Z-Quil on the bus.
Yeah.
That's the first couple of nights.
Have you, you, you pre-vosted it?
You've been in the tour buses?
Yep.
Those things are hard to sleep in for the first couple of nights for me.
What, what part do you sleep in and what part do you choose to sleep in?
Like, is there the, cause there's the different levels of the bunks.
Yeah.
So we're in a crew bus still.
So we travel 12 deep.
We've got the crew, everybody in one bus.
So I'm the back middle.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm the, I'm the top bunk.
We're looking for that second bus, but.
Yeah.
No, we have one bus when we go and it's a, everybody's in there.
They have a crew bus for like production.
So they're in a separate bus.
Ben's got some pictures.
There you go.
There's definitely different values to the different slots.
I think.
Yeah.
Our tour manager and a keyboard player, they all prefer the, the bottom bunk.
They say it's the nicest.
Yeah.
They said the worst part about the bottom bunk is if you blow a tire out, it
scares the
crap out of you, but.
And you're by everybody's feet.
Yeah.
That's a good point.
I guess there's a lot more dirt down there.
There's a little bit of foot traffic if you open the curtain.
People throwing their shoes off and then, you know, you got to wake up, move
shoes out of
the way.
Yeah.
That's true.
Yeah.
You have to really want to get up.
So I will tell you our old bus, what we call it.
It's a bus.
The one we traveled in before, it's like a redneck Prevost.
It was a 99 E450 with six bunks built in the back of it.
You could probably Google it, Ben.
Yeah.
You could.
The breeze is what we named it.
And this was homemade.
So this is how you guys first, when you guys started hitting the road.
Yeah.
And it, we, we broke down a lot.
Picked ourselves up off the side of the road multiple times.
Yeah.
So.
We had started looking for a, a van and the vans were just so expensive at the
time.
So yeah, we're sitting right up there.
Wow.
I don't know if we have a picture of the inside.
Probably not.
Not on the internet.
That's an old picture.
And this looks like one of those things where they go to pick up seniors kind
of to take
them to market and stuff.
Is it that sort of.
Yeah.
Like a shuttle bus.
Did it have that sort of door on it?
That's us waving goodbye.
Yeah.
That was when we got the new bus.
Uh, it had, uh, it had the, it had the door, it had an electric open.
We ended up just getting rid of it.
And then our security system was just a ratchet strap, had an eye bolt on it
and we just hooked
to it.
Yeah.
It was rough.
At nighttime.
Um, yeah, but we, uh, we're practically diesel mechanics.
If you ever got a seven, three and you worked on.
Cause there's so many breakdowns.
You mean?
Yeah.
We had one at, uh, we had one.
Well, we had a guy that refused to, he would buzz cut his hair every day,
refuse to cut any
of his ear hair.
What about his nose hair?
My, he, it was all coming out of his ears.
Whatever was supposed to be in his nose had really had gone upstream, I guess.
You could see it.
Oh yeah.
You could see it.
I mean, it was like his, you know, one of those little troll dolls.
Yes.
Yeah.
Like one of those dolls you would get at school.
You put on your, on your, on your pencil.
Those are, you got to cut that at night.
You got to do it for them.
Oh, I think the moon cuts his hair.
It was very, I mean, it was like, it had like, it was involved in something
extra terrestrial
and he had, but that thing broke down a couple of times.
And one time he just threw a cup of water on it.
And I was like, that's not how we got to get it.
Is he shampooing it?
I'm talking about the engine.
The engine broke down one time and he threw a cup of water on it.
I thought you were talking about his ear hair.
Oh, the ear hair?
He's got some water on his ear hair.
The ear hair.
We've thrown our chair.
Well, we blew a hub.
We throw, we had to throw water on it.
Yeah.
Mostly just to listen to it sizzle.
See how hot it was.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
It's hot.
It's hot.
That's always the best mechanic, dude.
When you just crack that thing over here.
It's like, oh, it's too hot.
Oh, dude, we've had some.
There was one.
You remember the, oh, we blew a heater hose and it had what's called a quick
connect on
it.
Was it a heater hose?
Talking about Joe?
No, this was me and you.
You remember I spit on it.
Oh, yeah.
We couldn't get it to go over that little, it's like you just push it on at
clips and that's
it.
And we just fought with it for hours and I was like, you know what?
We missed our show.
We had to cancel our show and everything because we could not get this thing to
slide up.
It just needed a, and I was like, you know what?
Screw it.
I went in there.
We're all sitting in the bus kind of thinking about what to do.
I went out there and spit on it and pushed it on there and got it good.
And it worked.
Just needed a little lube, man.
That's it.
Oh, that's all you need a lot of times.
Red Clay Strays, man.
Thank you guys for coming in.
Thanks for having us.
Thanks for having us.
Yeah, I'm such a big fan, guys.
Why?
I don't know.
There's something damn, there's something just damn, it feels like a little bit
of whimsical,
historical, romantic about the music, you know?
Thank you.
There's something that feels like you just hop on the clock hands and just
start spinning
backwards.
And it's like almost, it feels like a little bit of like a time warp.
I don't know.
It's just feels, it feels good, man.
It feels good to listen to.
Well, that's cool.
You know?
I know you guys started, you guys are from the South.
You guys are from Alabama, right?
We all still live there.
Yeah.
Born and raised.
Mobile.
And how do you guys, was it a couple of you at first?
You guys have five guys now?
We have six now.
Okay.
But yeah, it was originally five, yeah.
We just hired a keyboard player.
Oh, wow.
Like last month?
Yep.
And did you audition for that or how'd that go?
We actually met him on, when we were touring with L King and he was playing
with L at the
time.
And then we realized last summer that he wasn't playing with L anymore and, you
know, reached
out to him.
Immediately.
It was one of those, we showed up, we're like, we're sevens.
He's like, he's not with us anymore.
We turned around, made a phone call.
Like, we got him now.
He's ours.
You're like, they let him go.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
Oh, that's perfect then.
So is that needed because you want to add a different element to the music or
what do
you, why do you, how do you come to make that choice kind of?
I think it's, yeah, we just wanted to, we've always wanted a keys player to,
you know, lay
down piano and organ tracks.
And I could play a little bit, but not near as good as we needed, I guess.
So that's always been a, a thing we've wanted to add in our music.
And it was supposed to be, we were going to get our drummer's little brother to
play
keys with us and he passed away in 2020.
So that was, Sevens was, is the right guy to fill that role that was originally
intended
for him, I think.
Yeah.
Was there like a trial night where he comes in and you're like, okay, this is.
Normally it would, we would hold an audition, but we already knew how great of
a player
he was from seeing him play with L and just sitting around in green rooms when
there'd
be a piano in the green room.
And he, we, we, you know, we saw him play and how, and how good he was.
So I think we've always been kind of looking for that piano player.
And when we saw him with L's, like Brandon said, it's one of those like, dang,
that guy's
a, he's good.
So when we saw that opportunity, we jumped on it as soon as we could.
Yeah.
And he fits in just long with us.
Yeah.
When we called, we weren't like, do you want to audition for us?
We were like, Hey, do you want to play with us?
You know, but here we are, we're auditioning and we'll audition in front of
house guys and
guitar techs, but.
And how does the band start to form up?
Like when it started out, how does that, how does a band even start?
Because I'm used to just hearing some guys like get together, write down a song
or whatever,
and then just kind of get in a fight at somebody's house and then the band is
done.
We, we do that.
We just haven't quit yet.
Plenty of fights have happened.
Now it's, uh, I had actually met Drew, uh, right when I was still in high
school and
then Drew introduced me to Andrew.
Uh, and we had started a little cover band, Drew, the guitar player, he was
actually the
manager at the time and, uh, you know, that band played for a while and we'd
actually hired
John in that band and he played for a couple of months before it dissolved.
And then we hired Zach, our guitar player and started calling ourselves
reckless race.
And then Drew, eventually we learned that he could sing and he was learning how
to play
guitar at the time.
So we started getting Drew to come on stage with us and, uh, when he first
started getting
on stage with us, his, he kept his amp turned all the way down.
He wouldn't even actually play.
Yeah.
He was just really shy.
I didn't know there's a way, I didn't know there's a way to be shy on